Writing
Hideo Oguni
EN, JA, CN, IT cinema · 139 credits
Born
9 July 1904
Died
5 February 1996 (aged 91)
Birthplace
Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Also known as 小國英雄 · 本城英太郎
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
Original Film Writer
Living
Original Film Writer
The Last Princess
Original Story
Ikiru
Screenplay
Seven Warriors
Original Film Writer
Ran
Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Original Film Writer
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Original Film Writer
Dojo Breaker
Screenplay
Battle Beyond the Stars
Original Story
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
Dodes'ka-den
Screenplay
The Little Runaway
Screenplay
Red Beard
Screenplay
Tiger of the Sea
Original Story
High and Low
Screenplay
53 Stages of Action
Original Story
Escape from Hell
Screenplay
Rabble Tactics
Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
Screenplay
Sanjuro
Screenplay
Yakuza Official
Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Screenplay
Secret Love
Screenplay
Knightly Advice
Screenplay
Good Rascals
Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
Script, Writer
Fine Man
Screenplay
The Ako Retainers
Screenplay
Traveling of Two Young Men
Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
Screenplay
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Screenplay
Oja sando gosa
Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
Screenplay
Blooded Spear
Screenplay
Bride of Peacock Castle
Screenplay
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Original Story
The Gaijin
Writer
The Hidden Fortress
Screenplay
Shogun's Holiday
Screenplay
Travels of Lord Mito
Screenplay
Hana no yukyo-den
Screenplay
Ukiyo buro
Screenplay
Fūraibō ichiban shōbu
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
Advance Patrol
Screenplay
The Lower Depths
Screenplay
Duel at Noon
Screenplay
Warning from Space
Screenplay
Vampire Moth
Screenplay
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Screenplay
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Screenplay
Five Patriots of Kyoto
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Path
Original Story
8:13 PM
Adaptation
Brooba
Screenplay
Seven Samurai
Screenplay
The Mysterious House
Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
Screenplay
Reunion
Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Screenplay
Dimple of Tokyo
Screenplay
Ikiru
Screenplay
Grease Paint Serenade
Screenplay
豪快三人男
Writer
Elegy
Story
Pirates
Writer
Ghost Train
Screenplay
Good-Bye!
Screenplay
Rira no hana wasureji
Adaptation
Four Love Stories
Screenplay
Lord for a Night
Screenplay
Ryū no misaki
Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
Screenplay
Nichijô no tatakai
Screenplay
阿片戦争
1943
The Opium War
Screenplay
The Man Who Waited
Screenplay
Sky of Hope
Writer
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Screenplay, Original Story
China Night
Screenplay
明朗五人男
Screenplay
続清水港
1940
Zoku Shimizu Minato
Original Story, Screenplay
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Original Story, Screenplay
