Hideo Oguni
Writing
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
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movieHighest 2 Lowest
2025
Original Film Writer
movieLiving
2022
Original Film Writer
movieThe Last Princess
2008
Original Story
movieIkiru
2007
Screenplay
movieRunaway Train
1985
Story, Original Film Writer
movieRan
1985
Screenplay
movieThe Warrior and the Sorceress
1984
Original Film Writer
movieDojo Breaker
1982
Screenplay
movieBattle Beyond the Stars
1980
Original Story
movieDodes'ka-den
1970
Screenplay
movieTora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Screenplay
movieThe Little Runaway
1966
Screenplay
movieThe Man Who Killed Six Women
1965
Screenplay
movieRed Beard
1965
Screenplay
movieTiger of the Sea
1964
Original Story
movieRabble Tactics
1963
Screenplay
movieHigh and Low
1963
Screenplay
movieCut the Shadow
1963
Screenplay
movieEscape from Hell
1963
Screenplay
movie53 Stages of Action
1963
Original Story
movieYakuza Official
1962
Screenplay
movieGenkuro Yoshitsune
1962
Screenplay
movieSecret Love
1962
Screenplay
movieKnightly Advice
1962
Screenplay
movieGood Rascals
1962
Screenplay
movieSanjuro
1962
Screenplay
movieFine Man
1961
Screenplay
movieTraveling of Two Young Men
1961
Screenplay
movieTabiwa Oiroke
1961
Writer
movieThe Ako Retainers
1961
Screenplay
movieThe Shogun and the Fishmonger
1961
Screenplay
movieScarier than the Devil
1960
Screenplay
movieMighty Shosuke
1960
Screenplay
movieLord Mito: All Star Version
1960
Screenplay
movieお嬢さん三度笠
1960
Screenplay
moviePineapple Butai
1959
Screenplay
movieBlooded Spear
1959
Screenplay
movieThe Edo Official and Apprentice
1959
Original Story
movieThe Gaijin
1959
Writer
movieBride of Peacock Castle
1959
Screenplay
movieThe Hidden Fortress
1958
Screenplay
movieTravels of Lord Mito
1958
Screenplay
movieHana no yukyo-den
1958
Screenplay
movieUkiyo buro
1958
Screenplay
movieMegitsune Buro
1958
Writer
movieShogun's Holiday
1958
Screenplay
movieAdvance Patrol
1957
Screenplay
movieThe Lower Depths
1957
Screenplay
movieThe Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957
Screenplay
movieThrone of Blood
1957
Screenplay
movieFive Patriots of Kyoto
1956
Screenplay
movieExcursion to Treasure Isle
1956
Screenplay
movieThe Ghosts of Yotsuya
1956
Screenplay
movieFighting Birds
1956
Writer
movieThe Vampire Moth
1956
Screenplay
movieWarning from Space
1956
Screenplay
movieI Live in Fear
1955
Writer
movieBrooba
1955
Screenplay
movieThe Black Fury
1954
Writer
movieSeven Samurai
1954
Screenplay
movieReunion
1953
Screenplay
movieWhere Chimneys Are Seen
1953
Screenplay
movieIkiru
1952
Screenplay
movieDimple of Tokyo
1952
Screenplay
movieDivorce
1952
Writer
movieGrease Paint Serenade
1952
Screenplay
moviePirates
1951
Writer
movie豪快三人男
1951
Writer
movieElegy
1951
Story
movieThe Elephant Who Waited
1949
Screenplay
movieGhost Train
1949
Screenplay
movieGood-Bye!
1949
Screenplay
Nerawareta onna
1948
Screenplay
movieRira no hana wasureji
1947
Adaptation
movieFour Love Stories
1947
Screenplay
movieLord for a Night
1946
Screenplay
Iki na fûraibô
1946
Screenplay
movieRyū no misaki
1945
Screenplay
movieNichijô no tatakai
1944
Screenplay
movieSinking the Unsinkable
1944
Screenplay
movieThe Dawn of Freedom
1944
Screenplay
The Opium War
1943
Screenplay
movieThe Man Who Waited
1942
Screenplay
movieSky of Hope
1942
Writer
movieA Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941
Screenplay, Original Story
movie明朗五人男
1940
Screenplay
Zoku Shimizu Minato
1940
Original Story, Screenplay
movieChina Night
1940
Screenplay
movieEntatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
1939
Original Story, Screenplay
movieYaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
1938
Screenplay
