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Hideo Oguni

Known for: Writing

Biography: 1904-07-09

Deathday: 1996-02-05 (91 years old)

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 115

Movies 115

Writer 95

Hideo Oguni

Biography

Filmography

all 115

Movies 115

Writer 95

Screenplay 16

Living (2022)

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

The Last Princess (2008)

Tsubaki Sanjuro (2007)

Ikiru (2007)

High and Low (2007)

Ran (1985)

The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)

Dojo Breaker (1982)

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Incident at Blood Pass (1970)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

The Last Day of Hsianyang (1968)

The Little Runaway (1966)

The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay (1966)

Red Beard (1965)

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office (1964)

Tiger of the Sea (1964)

Samurai from Nowhere (1964)

The Man Disappears Yesterday (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)

Shinobi ai (1962)

Knightly Advice (1962)

Good Rascals (1962)

Sanjuro (1962)

Fine Man (1961)

Tabiwa Oiroke (1961)

The Ako Retainers (1961)

The Shogun and the Fishmonger (1961)

Scarier than the Devil (1960)

Mighty Shosuke (1960)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher (1960)

The Priest and the Beauty (1960)

Lord Mito: All Star Version (1960)

The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor (1960)

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1960)

Pineapple Butai (1959)

Blooded Spear (1959)

The Edo Official and Apprentice (1959)

Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun (1959)

The Gaijin (1959)

Bride of Peacock Castle (1959)

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Travels of Lord Mito (1958)

花の遊侠伝 (1958)

Megitsune Buro (1958)

Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase (1958)

Shogun's Holiday (1958)

Advance Patrol (1957)

The Lower Depths (1957)

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) (1957)

Throne of Blood (1957)

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1) (1956)

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin (1956)

Sisters of Destiny (1956)

Excursion to Treasure Isle (1956)

The Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956)

Fighting Birds (1956)

The Vampire Moth (1956)

Warning from Space (1956)

Thief and Magistrate (1955)

I Live in Fear (1955)

Brooba (1955)

The Beautiful Nuns (1955)

The Black Fury (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1904-07-09

Deathday
1996-02-05 (91 years old)

Birth Place
Hachinohe, Japan

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
小国英雄

Awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay