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Hideo Oguni

Name in Native Language: "小国英雄" (Japanese/JA)
Screenwriter / Film Director | * 07/09/1904 († 91, 02/05/1996) | Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture (Japan)
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 Where Chimneys Are Seen in 1953, K... ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterp ...

Ran

K12

1985 | 4.1/5 | 2h 40min
Action, Drama, History
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A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom. ...

High and Low

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1963 | 4.2/5 | 2h 22min
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life. ...

Ikiru

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1952 | 4.2/5 | 2h 23min
Drama
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A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...

Seven Samurai

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1954 | 4.3/5 | 3h 27min
Action, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Hideo Oguni

2x Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay
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Movies with Hideo Oguni as Crew(86)

Writing/Original Film Writer2022 Living
Writing/Original Story2008 The Last Princess
Writing/Screenplay1985 Ran
Writing/Original Film Writer1984 The Warrior and the Sorceress
Writing/Screenplay1982 Dojo Breaker
Writing/Writer1970 Incident at Blood Pass
Writing/Screenplay1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
Writing/Screenplay1970 Dodes'ka-den
Crew/Script1966 The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Writing/Screenplay1966 The Little Runaway
Writing/Screenplay1965 Red Beard
Writing/Writer1964 Kino kieta otoko
Writing/Original Story1964 Tiger of the Sea
Writing/Writer1964 Samurai from Nowhere
Writing/Screenplay1963 Escape from Hell
Writing/Screenplay1963 Cut the Shadow
Writing/Screenplay1963 High and Low
Writing/Screenplay1963 Rabble Tactics
Writing/Screenplay1962 Good Rascals
Writing/Screenplay1962 Sanjuro
Writing/Screenplay1962 Knightly Advice
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Ako Retainers
Writing/Screenplay1961 Fine Man
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Writing/Screenplay1960 Lord Mito 3: All Star Version
Writing/Writer1960 The Bad Sleep Well
Writing/Screenplay1960 Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Writing/Screenplay1960 The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Writing/Screenplay1960 Scarier than the Devil
Writing/Writer1960 The Priest and the Beauty
Writing/Screenplay1960 Mighty Shosuke
Writing/Screenplay1959 Blooded Spear
Writing/Screenplay1959 Bride of Peacock Castle
Writing/Original Story1959 The Edo Official and Apprentice
Writing/Writer1959 The Gaijin
Writing/Writer1958 Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Writing/Screenplay1958 Travels of Lord Mito
Writing/Writer1958 The Hidden Fortress
Writing/Writer1958 Megitsune Buro
Writing/Screenplay1957 The Lower Depths
Writing/Screenplay1957 Advance Patrol
Writing/Screenplay1957 The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Writing/Screenplay1957 Throne of Blood
Writing/Writer1956 Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Writing/Screenplay1956 The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Writing/Screenplay1956 The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Writing/Screenplay1956 Excursion to Treasure Isle
Writing/Writer1956 Fighting Birds
Writing/Screenplay1956 The Vampire Moth
Writing/Screenplay1956 Warning from Space
Writing/Writer1955 Thief and Magistrate
Writing/Writer1955 The Beautiful Nuns
Writing/Screenplay1955 Brooba
Writing/Writer1955 I Live in Fear
Writing/Writer1954 The Black Fury
Writing/Screenplay1954 Seven Samurai
Writing/Screenplay1953 Where Chimneys Are Seen
Writing/Screenplay1952 Dimple of Tokyo
Writing/Writer1952 Divorce
Writing/Writer1952 The Eyes of Two People
Writing/Screenplay1952 Ikiru
Writing/Writer1951 Pirates
Writing/Story1951 Elegy
Writing/Writer1950 When We Came Back
Writing/Screenplay1947 Four Love Stories
Writing/Writer1947 These Foolish Times
Writing/Screenplay1946 Lord for a Night
Writing/Writer1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Writing/Screenplay1944 The Dawn of Freedom
Writing/Screenplay1944 Sinking the Unsinkable
Writing/Screenplay1944 Nichijô no tatakai
Writing/Screenplay1943 The Opium War
Writing/Writer1942 Sky of Hope
Writing/Writer1942 Onna keizu
Writing/Screenplay1942 The Man Who Waited
Writing/Original Story1941 A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Writing/Screenplay1941 A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Writing/Writer1941 The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Writing/Screenplay1940 China Night
Writing/Original Story1940 Zoku Shimizu Minato
Writing/Screenplay1940 Zoku Shimizu Minato
Writing/Screenplay1939 Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Writing/Original Story1939 Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Writing/Writer1939 My Daughter's Only Wish
Writing/Screenplay1938 Enoken's Hokaibo
Writing/Screenplay1938 Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary

Full Name: Hideo Oguni
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Saturday, 07/09 1904 (July) in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture (Japan)
Died: Monday, 02/05 1996 (February) (aged: 91)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Other names for Hideo Oguni (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"小国英雄"
"おぐに ひでお" (Kana/Japanese)
Hideo Oguni frequently works together with these people:
Akira Kurosawa (46x, Crew)
Kamatari Fujiwara (17x, Actor)
Toshirō Mifune (15x, Actor)
Takashi Shimura (15x, Actor)
Haruo Tanaka (13x, Actor)
Sonosuke Sawamura (13x, Actor)
Yoshirô Muraki (13x, Crew)
Isao Yamagata (12x, Actor)
Ryûzô Kikushima (12x, Crew)
Minoru Chiaki (11x, Actor)
Yoshio Tsuchiya (11x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:457544, Added: 09/29/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024