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
Writing (116)
Seven Samurai
Screenplay
Ran
Screenplay
Highest 2 Lowest
Original Film Writer
High and Low
Screenplay
Ikiru
Screenplay
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
Sanjuro
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
Red Beard
Screenplay
Living
Original Film Writer
Runaway Train
Story
Runaway Train
Original Film Writer
The Hidden Fortress
Screenplay
Battle Beyond the Stars
Original Story
The Bad Sleep Well
Writer
Dodes'ka-den
Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Original Film Writer
The Lower Depths
Screenplay
I Live in Fear
Writer
Tiger of the Sea
Original Story
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
Screenplay
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Original Story
Warning from Space
Screenplay
Lord for a Night
Screenplay
Knightly Advice
Screenplay
Bride of Peacock Castle
Screenplay
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Screenplay
Yakuza Official
Screenplay
These Foolish Times
Writer
Five Patriots of Kyoto
Screenplay
Ikiru
Screenplay
Four Love Stories
Screenplay
Hana no yukyo-den
Screenplay
Samurai from Nowhere
Writer
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
Screenplay
Pirates
Writer
Shogun's Holiday
Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Screenplay
The Last Princess
Original Story
When We Came Back
Writer
Incident at Blood Pass
Writer
The Man Disappears Yesterday
Writer
Anchin and Kiyohime
Writer
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Writer
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Screenplay
Advance Patrol
Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Screenplay
Good-Bye!
Screenplay
The Little Runaway
Screenplay
Rabble Tactics
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Path
Original Story
Mighty Shosuke
Screenplay
お嬢さん三度笠
Screenplay
Sky of Hope
Writer
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Screenplay
Escape from Hell
Screenplay
Elegy
Story
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Screenplay
Megitsune Buro
Writer
Rira no hana wasureji
Adaptation
Dojo Breaker
Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
Screenplay
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Screenplay
The Vampire Moth
Screenplay
Good Rascals
Screenplay
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Writer
The Elephant Who Waited
Screenplay
The Mysterious House
Screenplay
The Black Fury
Writer
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Screenplay
The Man Who Killed Six Women
Screenplay
Thief and Magistrate
Writer
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Writer
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Screenplay
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
Screenplay
The Eyes of Two People
Writer
Traveling of Two Young Men
Screenplay
Reunion
Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
Screenplay
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Screenplay
明朗五人男
Screenplay
Dimple of Tokyo
Screenplay
The Ako Retainers
Screenplay
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Screenplay
Fighting Birds
Writer
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Writer
The Beautiful Nuns
Writer
Ghost Train
Screenplay
Nichijô no tatakai
Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
Screenplay
Fine Man
Screenplay
China Night
Screenplay
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
Writer
53 Stages of Action
Original Story
Travels of Lord Mito
Screenplay
Blooded Spear
Screenplay
Grease Paint Serenade
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Screenplay
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Original Story
Ukiyo buro
Screenplay
The Man Who Waited
Screenplay
豪快三人男
Writer
Divorce
Writer
Ryū no misaki
Screenplay
Secret Love
Screenplay
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Writer
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
Screenplay
The Gaijin
Writer
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
Brooba
Screenplay
