Hideo Oguni
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- July 9, 1904
- Died
- February 5, 1996 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
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.
Known For
Filmography
Highest 2 Lowest
Movie · Original Film Writer
Living
Movie · Original Film Writer
The Last Princess
Movie · Original Story
Ikiru
Movie · Screenplay
Seven Warriors
Movie · Original Film Writer
Ran
Movie · Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Movie · Original Film Writer
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Movie · Original Film Writer
Dojo Breaker
Movie · Screenplay
Battle Beyond the Stars
Movie · Original Story
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie · Screenplay
Incident at Blood Pass
Movie · Writer
Dodes'ka-den
Movie · Screenplay
The Little Runaway
Movie · Screenplay
Red Beard
Movie · Screenplay
The Man Who Killed Six Women
Movie · Screenplay
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Movie · Screenplay
Samurai from Nowhere
Movie · Writer
Tiger of the Sea
Movie · Original Story
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Movie · Screenplay
The Man Disappears Yesterday
Movie · Writer
High and Low
Movie · Screenplay
53 Stages of Action
Movie · Original Story
Escape from Hell
Movie · Screenplay
Rabble Tactics
Movie · Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
Movie · Screenplay
Sanjuro
Movie · Screenplay
Yakuza Official
Movie · Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Movie · Screenplay
Secret Love
Movie · Screenplay
Knightly Advice
Movie · Screenplay
Good Rascals
Movie · Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
Movie · Writer
Fine Man
Movie · Screenplay
The Ako Retainers
Movie · Screenplay
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Movie · Screenplay
Traveling of Two Young Men
Movie · Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
Movie · Writer
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
Movie · Screenplay
Anchin and Kiyohime
Movie · Writer
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Movie · Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
Movie · Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
Movie · Screenplay
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Movie · Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie · Screenplay
Oja sando gosa
Movie · Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
Movie · Screenplay
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Movie · Screenplay
Blooded Spear
Movie · Screenplay
Bride of Peacock Castle
Movie · Screenplay
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Movie · Original Story
The Gaijin
Movie · Writer
The Hidden Fortress
Movie · Screenplay
Shogun's Holiday
Movie · Screenplay
Travels of Lord Mito
Movie · Screenplay
Hana no yukyo-den
Movie · Screenplay
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Movie · Writer
Megitsune Buro
Movie · Writer
Ukiyo buro
Movie · Screenplay
The Little Actress
Movie · Screenplay
Fūraibō ichiban shōbu
Movie · Screenplay
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō
Movie · Adaptation
Throne of Blood
Movie · Screenplay
Advance Patrol
Movie · Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Movie · Screenplay
The Lower Depths
Movie · Screenplay
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjō
Movie · Screenplay
Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
Movie · Adaptation
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki
Movie · Adaptation
Duel at Noon
Movie · Screenplay
Warning from Space
Movie · Screenplay
Vampire Moth
Movie · Screenplay
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Movie · Screenplay
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Movie · Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Movie · Screenplay
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
Movie · Writer
Fighting Birds
Movie · Writer
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
Movie · Screenplay
Five Patriots of Kyoto
Movie · Screenplay
A Man's Flower Path
Movie · Original Story
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Movie · Screenplay
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae
Movie · Adaptation
8:13 PM
Movie · Adaptation
I Live in Fear
Movie · Writer
The Beautiful Nuns
Movie · Writer
Brooba
Movie · Screenplay
Thief and Magistrate
Movie · Writer
Seven Samurai
Movie · Screenplay
The Black Fury
Movie · Writer
The Mysterious House
Movie · Screenplay
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Movie · Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
Movie · Screenplay
Reunion
Movie · Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Movie · Screenplay
Divorce
Movie · Writer
The Eyes of Two People
Movie · Writer
Dimple of Tokyo
Movie · Screenplay
Ikiru
Movie · Screenplay
Grease Paint Serenade
Movie · Screenplay
豪快三人男
Movie · Writer
Elegy
Movie · Story
Pirates
Movie · Writer
When We Came Back
Movie · Writer
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Movie · Screenplay
Ghost Train
Movie · Screenplay
The Elephant Who Waited
Movie · Screenplay
Good-Bye!
Movie · Screenplay
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Movie · Writer
Nerawareta onna
Movie · Screenplay
Rira no hana wasureji
Movie · Adaptation
Four Love Stories
Movie · Screenplay
These Foolish Times
Movie · Writer
Lord for a Night
Movie · Screenplay
Iki na fûraibô
Movie · Screenplay
Machi no ninkisha
Movie · Screenplay
Ryū no misaki
Movie · Screenplay
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Movie · Writer
The Dawn of Freedom
Movie · Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
Movie · Screenplay
Nichijô no tatakai
Movie · Screenplay
The Opium War
Movie · Screenplay
The Man Who Waited
Movie · Screenplay
Sky of Hope
Movie · Writer
Onna keizu
Movie · Writer
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Movie · Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Movie · Writer
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Movie · Screenplay, Original Story
世紀は笑ふ
Movie · Writer
China Night
Movie · Screenplay
明朗五人男
Movie · Screenplay
Zoku Shimizu Minato
Movie · Original Story, Screenplay
My Daughter's Only Wish
Movie · Writer
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Movie · Original Story, Screenplay
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Movie · Screenplay
Enoken's Hokaibo
Movie · Screenplay
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
Movie · Writer
Happy Daughter
Movie · Writer