Hideo Oguni

from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Timeline

2025Aged 121

  • Poster for Highest 2 Lowest

    Original Film Writer

2022Aged 118

  • Poster for Living

    Original Film Writer

2008Aged 104

  • Poster for The Last Princess

    Original Story

2007Aged 103

  • Poster for Ikiru

    Screenplay

1989Aged 85

  • Poster for Seven Warriors

    Original Film Writer

1985Aged 81

  • Poster for Ran

    Screenplay

1984Aged 80

  • Poster for The Warrior and the Sorceress

    Original Film Writer

1983Aged 79

  • Poster for The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

    Original Film Writer

1982Aged 78

  • Poster for Dojo Breaker

    Screenplay

1980Aged 76

  • Poster for Battle Beyond the Stars

    Original Story

1970Aged 66

  • Poster for Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Incident at Blood Pass

    Writer

  • Poster for Dodes'ka-den

    Screenplay

1966Aged 62

  • Poster for The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay

    Script

  • Poster for The Little Runaway

    Screenplay

1965Aged 61

  • Poster for Red Beard

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Man Who Killed Six Women

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Monk in the Big City of Edo

    Screenplay

1964Aged 60

  • Poster for Samurai from Nowhere

    Writer

  • Poster for The Man Disappears Yesterday

    Writer

  • Poster for Tiger of the Sea

    Original Story

  • Poster for Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office

    Screenplay

1963Aged 59

  • Poster for 53 Stages of Action

    Original Story

  • Poster for Escape from Hell

    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

  • Poster for High and Low

    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

1962Aged 58

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    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

  • Poster for Secret Love

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Genkuro Yoshitsune

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Yakuza Official

    Screenplay

1961Aged 57

  • Poster for The Shogun and the Fishmonger

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Ako Retainers

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tabiwa Oiroke

    Writer

  • Poster for Traveling of Two Young Men

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Fine Man

    Screenplay

1960Aged 56

  • Poster for Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

    Screenplay

  • Poster for お嬢さん三度笠

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Lord Mito: All Star Version

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Anchin and Kiyohime

    Writer

  • Poster for Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher

    Screenplay

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    Writer

  • Poster for Mighty Shosuke

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Scarier than the Devil

    Screenplay

1959Aged 55

  • Poster for Bride of Peacock Castle

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Gaijin

    Writer

  • Poster for Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Edo Official and Apprentice

    Original Story

  • Poster for Blooded Spear

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Pineapple Butai

    Screenplay

1958Aged 54

  • Poster for Shogun's Holiday

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase

    Writer

  • Poster for Fūraibō ichiban shōbu

    Screenplay

  • The Little Actress

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Megitsune Buro

    Writer

  • Poster for Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Ukiyo buro

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hana no yukyo-den

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Travels of Lord Mito

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Hidden Fortress

    Screenplay

1957Aged 53

  • Poster for Throne of Blood

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjō

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Duel at Noon

    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

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    Screenplay

1956Aged 52

1955Aged 51

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    Screenplay

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    Writer

  • Poster for Thief and Magistrate

    Writer

1954Aged 50

  • Poster for Utsukushiki taka

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Mysterious House

    Screenplay

  • Poster for My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Seven Samurai

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Black Fury

    Writer

1953Aged 49

  • Poster for Where Chimneys Are Seen

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Reunion

    Screenplay

1952Aged 48

  • Poster for Grease Paint Serenade

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Divorce

    Writer

  • Poster for Dimple of Tokyo

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Ikiru

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Eyes of Two People

    Writer

1951Aged 47

  • Poster for Elegy

    Story

  • Poster for 豪快三人男

    Writer

  • Poster for Pirates

    Writer

1950Aged 46

  • Poster for A Female Doctor's Examination Room

    Screenplay

  • Poster for When We Came Back

    Writer

1949Aged 45

  • Poster for Good-Bye!

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Ghost Train

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Elephant Who Waited

    Screenplay

1948Aged 44

1947Aged 43

  • Poster for A Luxurious Ship for the Bridegroom

    Script

  • Poster for Four Love Stories

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Rira no hana wasureji

    Adaptation

  • Poster for These Foolish Times

    Writer

1946Aged 42

1945Aged 41

  • Poster for Ryū no misaki

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

    Writer

1944Aged 40

  • Poster for The Dawn of Freedom

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Sinking the Unsinkable

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Nichijô no tatakai

    Screenplay

1943Aged 39

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1938Aged 34

1934Aged 30

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