Hideo Oguni
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.
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Movies (139)
Del cielo al infierno
2025 · Original Film Writer
Vivir
2022 · Original Film Writer
The Last Princess
2008 · Original Story
Ikiru
2007 · Screenplay
Seven Warriors
1989 · Original Film Writer
Ran
1985 · Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984 · Original Film Writer
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
1983 · Original Film Writer
Dojo Breaker
1982 · Screenplay
Battle Beyond the Stars
1980 · Original Story
Dodes'ka-den
1970 · Screenplay
Incident at Blood Pass
1970 · Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Screenplay
The Little Runaway
1966 · Screenplay
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
1966 · Script
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
1965 · Screenplay
The Man Who Killed Six Women
1965 · Screenplay
Red Beard
1965 · Screenplay
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
1964 · Screenplay
Tiger of the Sea
1964 · Original Story
The Man Disappears Yesterday
1964 · Writer
Samurai from Nowhere
1964 · Writer
Rabble Tactics
1963 · Screenplay
High and Low
1963 · Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
1963 · Screenplay
Escape from Hell
1963 · Screenplay
53 Stages of Action
1963 · Original Story
Yakuza Official
1962 · Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
1962 · Screenplay
Secret Love
1962 · Screenplay
Knightly Advice
1962 · Screenplay
Good Rascals
1962 · Screenplay
Sanjuro
1962 · Screenplay
Fine Man
1961 · Screenplay
Traveling of Two Young Men
1961 · Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
1961 · Script, Writer
The Ako Retainers
1961 · Screenplay
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
1961 · Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
1960 · Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
1960 · Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Writer
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
1960 · Screenplay
Anchin and Kiyohime
1960 · Writer
Lord Mito: All Star Version
1960 · Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
1960 · Screenplay
Oja sando gosa
1960 · Screenplay
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960 · Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
1959 · Screenplay
Blooded Spear
1959 · Screenplay
The Edo Official and Apprentice
1959 · Original Story
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
1959 · Screenplay
The Gaijin
1959 · Writer
Bride of Peacock Castle
1959 · Screenplay
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Screenplay
Travels of Lord Mito
1958 · Screenplay
Hana no yukyo-den
1958 · Screenplay
Ukiyo buro
1958 · Screenplay
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō
1958 · Adaptation
Megitsune Buro
1958 · Writer
The Little Actress
1958 · Screenplay
Fūraibō ichiban shōbu
1958 · Screenplay
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
1958 · Writer
Shogun's Holiday
1958 · Screenplay
Advance Patrol
1957 · Screenplay
The Lower Depths
1957 · Screenplay
Duel at Noon
1957 · Screenplay
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki
1957 · Adaptation
Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
1957 · Adaptation
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957 · Screenplay
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjō
1957 · Screenplay
Throne of Blood
1957 · Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
1956 · Screenplay
A Man's Flower Path
1956 · Original Story
8:13 PM
1956 · Adaptation
Five Patriots of Kyoto
1956 · Screenplay
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
1956 · Screenplay
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956 · Writer
Excursion to Treasure Isle
1956 · Screenplay
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
1956 · Screenplay
Fighting Birds
1956 · Writer
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae
1956 · Adaptation
Vampire Moth
1956 · Screenplay
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
1956 · Screenplay
Warning from Space
1956 · Screenplay
Thief and Magistrate
1955 · Writer
I Live in Fear
1955 · Writer
Brooba
1955 · Screenplay
The Beautiful Nuns
1955 · Writer
The Black Fury
1954 · Writer
Seven Samurai
1954 · Screenplay
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
1954 · Screenplay
The Mysterious House
1954 · Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
1954 · Screenplay
Reunion
1953 · Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953 · Screenplay
The Eyes of Two People
1952 · Writer
Ikiru
1952 · Screenplay
Dimple of Tokyo
1952 · Screenplay
Divorce
1952 · Writer
Grease Paint Serenade
1952 · Screenplay
Pirates
1951 · Writer
豪快三人男
1951 · Writer
Elegy
1951 · Story
When We Came Back
1950 · Writer
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
1950 · Screenplay
The Elephant Who Waited
1949 · Screenplay
Ghost Train
1949 · Screenplay
Good-Bye!
1949 · Screenplay
Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948 · Writer
Nerawareta onna
1948 · Screenplay
These Foolish Times
1947 · Writer
Rira no hana wasureji
1947 · Adaptation
Four Love Stories
1947 · Screenplay
A Luxurious Ship for the Bridegroom
1947 · Script
Lord for a Night
1946 · Screenplay
Machi no ninkisha
1946 · Screenplay
Iki na fûraibô
1946 · Screenplay
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 · Writer
Ryū no misaki
1945 · Screenplay
Nichijô no tatakai
1944 · Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944 · Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
1944 · Screenplay
The Opium War
1943 · Screenplay
Onna keizu
1942 · Writer
The Man Who Waited
1942 · Screenplay
Sky of Hope
1942 · Writer
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941 · Screenplay, Original Story
世紀は笑ふ
1941 · Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza
1941 · Writer
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1941 · Writer
明朗五人男
1940 · Screenplay
Zoku Shimizu Minato
1940 · Original Story, Screenplay
China Night
1940 · Screenplay
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
1939 · Original Story, Screenplay
My Daughter's Only Wish
1939 · Writer
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
1938 · Screenplay
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
1938 · Writer
Enoken's Hokaibo
1938 · Screenplay
Happy Daughter
1934 · Writer
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