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.
Known for
WritingBirthday
July 9, 1904Deathday
February 5, 1996Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
107Place of birth
Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, JapanAlso known as
小国英雄
Crew credits
Seven Samurai
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
I Live in Fear
Writer
Ran
Screenplay
Sanjuro
Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
Writer
High and Low
Screenplay
Warning from Space
Screenplay
Samurai from Nowhere
Writer
Divorce
Writer
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Screenplay
The Priest and the Beauty
Writer
Advance Patrol
Screenplay
The Little Runaway
Screenplay
The Vampire Moth
Screenplay
Dimple of Tokyo
Screenplay
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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