Hideo Oguni
Writing
Born: July 9, 1904 · Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Died: February 5, 1996 (aged 91)
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.
Known for
Seven Samurai
1954
Ran
1985
Ikiru
1952
High and Low
1963
Throne of Blood
1957
Sanjuro
1962
The Hidden Fortress
1958
Runaway Train
1985
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Living
2022
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
Red Beard
1965
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Writing (125)
Seven Samurai
Screenplay
Highest 2 Lowest
Original Film Writer
Ran
Screenplay
Ikiru
Screenplay
High and Low
Screenplay
Red Beard
Screenplay
Living
Original Film Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
The Hidden Fortress
Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
Writer
Sanjuro
Screenplay
Battle Beyond the Stars
Original Story
Dodes'ka-den
Screenplay
Duel at Noon
Screenplay
I Live in Fear
Writer
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Original Film Writer
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Original Film Writer
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki
Adaptation
China Night
Screenplay
Fūraibō ichiban shōbu
Screenplay
The Man Disappears Yesterday
Writer
Sky of Hope
Writer
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō
Adaptation
The Lower Depths
Screenplay
The Last Princess
Original Story
Samurai from Nowhere
Writer
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjō
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Original Story
8:13 PM
Adaptation
A Man's Flower Path
Original Story
Seven Warriors
Original Film Writer
Incident at Blood Pass
Writer
Four Love Stories
Screenplay
Ghost Train
Screenplay
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Screenplay
Knightly Advice
Screenplay
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Writer
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Screenplay
Escape from Hell
Screenplay
Dimple of Tokyo
Screenplay
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Writer
Fighting Birds
Writer
Anchin and Kiyohime
Writer
Vampire Moth
Screenplay
Good-Bye!
Screenplay
Warning from Space
Screenplay
The Little Runaway
Screenplay
The Ako Retainers
Screenplay
Ikiru
Screenplay
Lord for a Night
Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
Screenplay
明朗五人男
Screenplay
Oja sando gosa
Screenplay
Rira no hana wasureji
Adaptation
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
Screenplay
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Screenplay
Good Rascals
Screenplay
The Mysterious House
Screenplay
Travels of Lord Mito
Screenplay
Elegy
Story
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Screenplay
Reunion
Screenplay
Thief and Magistrate
Writer
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae
Adaptation
Tabiwa Oiroke
Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Writer
The Eyes of Two People
Writer
Bride of Peacock Castle
Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Screenplay
Hana no yukyo-den
Screenplay
豪快三人男
Writer
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
Screenplay
Megitsune Buro
Writer
Ukiyo buro
Screenplay
The Elephant Who Waited
Screenplay
Yakuza Official
Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
Screenplay
Rabble Tactics
Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
Screenplay
The Beautiful Nuns
Writer
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Screenplay
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Screenplay
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Writer
Fine Man
Screenplay
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Screenplay
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Original Story
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Screenplay
When We Came Back
Writer
53 Stages of Action
Original Story
Blooded Spear
Screenplay
Shogun's Holiday
Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
Screenplay
The Black Fury
Writer
These Foolish Times
Writer
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Screenplay
Advance Patrol
Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
Screenplay
The Man Who Waited
Screenplay
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Screenplay
Divorce
Writer
Nichijô no tatakai
Screenplay
Traveling of Two Young Men
Screenplay
Grease Paint Serenade
Screenplay
Pirates
Writer
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Original Story
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Screenplay
Tiger of the Sea
Original Story
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Writer
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Screenplay
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Screenplay
Ryū no misaki
Screenplay
The Man Who Killed Six Women
Screenplay
The Gaijin
Writer
Dojo Breaker
Screenplay
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Screenplay
Secret Love
Screenplay
Brooba
Screenplay
Five Patriots of Kyoto
Screenplay
Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
Adaptation
