Hideo Oguni

Writing

Born Jul 09, 1904

From Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan

Died Feb 05, 1996

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 — Crew

Hideo Oguni

Filmography — Crew

Seven Samurai

High and Low

Ran

Ikiru

Throne of Blood

Red Beard

The Hidden Fortress

Sanjuro

Tora! Tora! Tora!

The Bad Sleep Well

Dodes'ka-den

I Live in Fear

The Ghosts of Yotsuya

The Lower Depths

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Advance Patrol

Lord Mito: All Star Version

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

Warning from Space

Samurai from Nowhere

Incident at Blood Pass

The Vampire Moth

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office

The Little Runaway

Four Love Stories

Ikiru

Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun

Sky of Hope

Dimple of Tokyo

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

Reunion

Escape from Hell

The Opium War

Good Rascals

The Ako Retainers

Pirates

These Foolish Times

A Female Doctor's Examination Room

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Iemitsu and Hikoza

Sinking the Unsinkable

お嬢さん三度笠

Anchin and Kiyohime

The Man Disappears Yesterday

Scarier than the Devil

Knightly Advice

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher

Mighty Shosuke

The Man Who Waited

Excursion to Treasure Isle

Cut the Shadow

Onna keizu

China Night

Ghosts Die at Dawn

Pineapple Butai

Megitsune Buro

Nichijô no tatakai

Travels of Lord Mito

Fighting Birds

Rabble Tactics

Shogun's Holiday

Secret Love

The Elephant Who Waited

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

Hana no yukyo-den

Lord for a Night

The Eyes of Two People

Genkuro Yoshitsune

When We Came Back

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin

Fine Man

Traveling of Two Young Men

The Shogun and the Fishmonger

Tabiwa Oiroke

Yakuza Official

A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year