Hideo Oguni

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-07-09 (92 years old)

Deathday

1996-02-05

Place of Birth

Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Hideo Oguni

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 Renoi...

Production

1954

Seven Samurai

as Screenplay

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Screenplay

1955

1957

Throne of Blood

as Screenplay

1984

The Warrior and the Sorceress

as Original Film Writer

1985

Ran

as Screenplay

1962

Sanjuro

as Screenplay

1960

1963

High and Low

as Screenplay

1942

The Man Who Waited

as Screenplay

1963

53 Stages of Action

as Original Story

1956

Warning from Space

as Screenplay

2008

The Last Princess

as Original Story

1934

1949

Ghost Train

as Screenplay

1942

Sky of Hope

as Writer

1962

Yakuza Official

as Screenplay

1952

Divorce

as Writer

1946

Lord for a Night

as Screenplay

1958

The Hidden Fortress

as Screenplay

1955

1955

Brooba

as Screenplay

1947

1958

Shogun's Holiday

as Screenplay

1962

Genkuro Yoshitsune

as Screenplay

1957

Advance Patrol

as Screenplay

1945

Ryū no misaki

as Screenplay

1950

1953

Reunion

as Screenplay

1958

1938

Enoken's Hokaibo

as Screenplay

1959

Pineapple Butai

as Screenplay

1966

The Little Runaway

as Screenplay

1956

The Vampire Moth

as Screenplay

1952

Dimple of Tokyo

as Screenplay

1956

1961

Tabiwa Oiroke

as Script

1961

Tabiwa Oiroke

as Writer

2025

Highest 2 Lowest

as Original Film Writer

1951

1958

Hana no yukyo-den

as Screenplay

1940

China Night

as Screenplay

1942

Onna keizu

as Writer

2007

Ikiru

as Screenplay

2022

Living

as Original Film Writer

1965

Red Beard

as Screenplay

1940

明朗五人男

as Screenplay

1961

Fine Man

as Screenplay

1962

Secret Love

as Screenplay

1948

1947

1961

The Ako Retainers

as Screenplay

1946

Iki na fûraibô

as Screenplay

1964

Tiger of the Sea

as Original Story

1963

Escape from Hell

as Screenplay

1949

1944

The Dawn of Freedom

as Screenplay

1959

Blooded Spear

as Screenplay

1982

Dojo Breaker

as Screenplay

1952

Ikiru

as Screenplay

1970

Dodes'ka-den

as Screenplay

1963

Rabble Tactics

as Screenplay

1944

1940

Zoku Shimizu Minato

as Original Story

1940

Zoku Shimizu Minato

as Screenplay

1959

1944

Nichijô no tatakai

as Screenplay

1960

1957

The Lower Depths

as Screenplay

1953

1962

Knightly Advice

as Screenplay

1960

Mighty Shosuke

as Screenplay

1941

1941

1963

Cut the Shadow

as Screenplay

1943

The Opium War

as Screenplay

1959

1947

Four Love Stories

as Screenplay

1962

Good Rascals

as Screenplay

1956

1958

1959

The Gaijin

as Writer

1947

1954

1951

Elegy

as Story

1956

Sisters of Destiny

as Screenplay

1951

Pirates

as Writer

1985

1985

Runaway Train

as Original Film Writer

1960

1980

Battle Beyond the Stars

as Original Story

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