About

Known credits:
115
Birthday:
1904-07-09
Place of birth:
Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Website:
N/A

Hideo Oguni

Overview

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

Writing
2022 Living Writing Original Film Writer 63
Fair
2008 The Last Princess Writing Original Story 58
Average
2007 Ikiru Writing Screenplay N/A
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1985 Ran Writing Screenplay 75
Good
1984 The Warrior and the Sorceress Writing Original Film Writer 57
Average
1982 Dojo Breaker Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1970 Dodes'ka-den Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1970 Incident at Blood Pass Writing Writer 59
Average
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! Writing Screenplay 65
Fair
1966 The Little Runaway Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1965 Red Beard Writing Screenplay 68
Fair
1964 Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1964 Tiger of the Sea Writing Original Story N/A
N/A
1964 Samurai from Nowhere Writing Writer 59
Average
1964 The Man Disappears Yesterday Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1963 Rabble Tactics Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1963 Cut the Shadow Writing Screenplay N/A
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1963 High and Low Writing Screenplay 74
Good
1963 Escape from Hell Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1963 53 Stages of Action Writing Original Story N/A
N/A
1962 Yakuza Official Writing Screenplay N/A
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1962 Genkuro Yoshitsune Writing Screenplay N/A
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1962 Secret love Writing Screenplay N/A
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1962 Knightly Advice Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1962 Good Rascals Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1962 Sanjuro Writing Screenplay 70
Good
1961 Fine Man Writing Screenplay N/A
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1961 Tabiwa Oiroke Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1961 The Ako Retainers Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1961 The Shogun and the Fishmonger Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1960 Scarier than the Devil Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1960 Mighty Shosuke Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1960 The Bad Sleep Well Writing Writer 64
Fair
1960 Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1960 The Priest and the Beauty Writing Writer 58
Average
1960 Lord Mito: All Star Version Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1960 The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1960 Return of the One-Armed Swordsman Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1959 Pineapple Butai Writing Screenplay N/A
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1959 Blooded Spear Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1959 The Edo Official and Apprentice Writing Original Story 59
Average
1959 Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1959 The Gaijin Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1959 Bride of Peacock Castle Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1958 The Hidden Fortress Writing Screenplay 70
Good
1958 Travels of Lord Mito Writing Screenplay N/A
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1958 Hana no yukyo-den Writing Screenplay N/A
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1958 Megitsune Buro Writing Writer N/A
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1958 Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1958 Shogun's Holiday Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1957 Advance Patrol Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1957 The Lower Depths Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1957 The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1957 Throne of Blood Writing Screenplay 71
Good
1956 The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1) Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1956 Sisters of Destiny Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1956 Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1956 Excursion to Treasure Isle Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1956 The Ghosts of Yotsuya Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1956 Fighting Birds Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1956 The Vampire Moth Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1956 Warning from Space Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1955 Thief and Magistrate Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1955 I Live in Fear Writing Writer 61
Fair
1955 Brooba Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1955 The Beautiful Nuns Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1954 The Black Fury Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1954 Seven Samurai Writing Screenplay 81
Very good
1953 Reunion Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1953 Where Chimneys Are Seen Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1952 The Eyes of Two People Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1952 Ikiru Writing Screenplay 75
Good
1952 Dimple of Tokyo Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1952 Divorce Writing Writer N/A
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1951 Pirates Writing Writer N/A
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1951 豪快三人男 Writing Writer N/A
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1951 Elegy Writing Story N/A
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1950 When We Came Back Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1950 A Female Doctor's Examination Room Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1949 The Elephant Who Waited Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1949 Ghost Train Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1948 Ghosts Die at Dawn Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1947 These Foolish Times Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1947 Rira no hana wasureji Writing Adaptation N/A
N/A
1947 Four Love Stories Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1946 Lord for a Night Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1946 Iki na fûraibô Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo Writing Writer 58
Average
1945 Ryū no misaki Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1944 Nichijô no tatakai Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1944 Sinking the Unsinkable Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1944 The Dawn of Freedom Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1943 The Opium War Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1942 Onna keizu Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1942 The Man Who Waited Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1942 Sky of Hope Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1941 A Man's Flower Road of Triumph Writing Original Story 59
Average
1941 A Man's Flower Road of Triumph Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1941 Iemitsu and Hikoza Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1941 The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday Writing Writer 58
Average
1940 明朗五人男 Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1940 Zoku Shimizu Minato Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1940 Zoku Shimizu Minato Writing Original Story N/A
N/A
1940 China Night Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1939 Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1939 Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year Writing Original Story N/A
N/A
1939 My Daughter's Only Wish Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1938 Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1938 Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip Writing Writer N/A
N/A
1938 Enoken's Hokaibo Writing Screenplay N/A
N/A
1934 Happy Daughter Writing Writer N/A
N/A
Highest 2 Lowest Writing Original Film Writer N/A
N/A

Crew
1966 The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay Crew Script N/A
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1961 Tabiwa Oiroke Crew Script N/A
N/A
1947 聟入り豪華船 Crew Script N/A
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