Biography
Hideo Oguni (小国 英雄 Oguni Hideo, 9 July 1904 – 5 February 1996) was a Japanese writer who wrote over 100 screenplays. He is best known for co-writing screenplays for a number of films directed by Akira Kurosawa, including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden Fortress. His first film with Kurosawa was Ikiru, and according to film professor Catherine Russell, it was Oguni who devised that film's two-part structure. Film critic Donald Richie regarded him as the "humanist" among Kurosawa's writers. In 2013, Oguni and frequent screenwriting collaborators Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Ryūzō Kikushima were awarded the Jean Renoir Award by the Writers Guild of America West.
Writing credits other than for Kurosawa films include Heinosuke Gosho's Entotsu no mieru basho in 1953, Koji Shima's Warning from Space in 1956, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Hiroshi Inagaki's Machibuse in 1970.
Filmography
all 124
Movies 124
Screenplay 72
Writer 43
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Living (2022)
The Last Princess (2008)
Ikiru (2007)
Runaway Train (1985)
Ran (1985)
The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
Dojo Breaker (1982)
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Little Runaway (1966)
六人の女を殺した男 (1965)
Red Beard (1965)
Tiger of the Sea (1964)
Rabble Tactics (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Cut the Shadow (1963)
Escape from Hell (1963)
53 Stages of Action (1963)
Yakuza Official (1962)
Genkuro Yoshitsune (1962)
Secret Love (1962)
Knightly Advice (1962)
Good Rascals (1962)
Sanjuro (1962)
Fine Man (1961)
Traveling of Two Young Men (1961)
Tabiwa Oiroke (1961)
The Ako Retainers (1961)
Scarier than the Devil (1960)
Mighty Shosuke (1960)
Lord Mito: All Star Version (1960)
お嬢さん三度笠 (1960)
Pineapple Butai (1959)
Blooded Spear (1959)
The Edo Official and Apprentice (1959)
The Gaijin (1959)
Bride of Peacock Castle (1959)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Travels of Lord Mito (1958)
Hana no yukyo-den (1958)
Shogun's Holiday (1958)
Advance Patrol (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Sisters of Destiny (1956)
Excursion to Treasure Isle (1956)
The Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956)
The Vampire Moth (1956)
Warning from Space (1956)
Brooba (1955)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Reunion (1953)
Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Ikiru (1952)
Dimple of Tokyo (1952)
Divorce (1952)
Pirates (1951)
豪快三人男 (1951)
Elegy (1951)
The Elephant Who Waited (1949)
Ghost Train (1949)
Rira no hana wasureji (1947)
Four Love Stories (1947)
聟入り豪華船 (1947)
Lord for a Night (1946)
Iki na fûraibô (1946)
Ryū no misaki (1945)
Nichijô no tatakai (1944)
Sinking the Unsinkable (1944)
The Dawn of Freedom (1944)
The Opium War (1943)
Onna keizu (1942)
The Man Who Waited (1942)
Sky of Hope (1942)
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph (1941)
明朗五人男 (1940)
Zoku Shimizu Minato (1940)
China Night (1940)
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year (1939)
Rivals (1939)
Enoken's Hokaibo (1938)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1904-07-09
Deathday1996-02-05 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceHachinohe, Japan
CitizenshipsEmpire of Japan, Japan
AwardsMainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay
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