Hideo Oguni

Writer · Born 9 July 1904 in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan · Died 5 February 1996 · 8 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

8 of Hideo Oguni’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 8 on Cineasterna. Highest rated available: Seven Samurai (1954) ★ 8.6.

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.

Writing

• High and Low (1963)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Ran (1985)
• Red Beard (1965)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• Sanjuro (1962)
• Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• The Lower Depths (1957)
• I Live in Fear (1955)
• Warning from Space (1956)
• Incident at Blood Pass (1970)
• Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
• Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
• A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)
• Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun (1959)
• The Vampire Moth (1956)
• Escape from Hell (1963)