Hideo Oguni
b. 1904 — d. 1996 (aged 92)
Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
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Writer
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
Filmography
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Highest 2 Lowest
2025 Writer
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★ 7.2
Living
2022 Writer
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★ 6.9
The Magnificent Seven
2016 Writer
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★ 5.8
Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess
2008 Writer
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★ 5.7
Tsubaki Sanjûrô
2007 Writer
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★ 6.4
High and Low
2007 Writer
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★ 8.2
Ran
1985 Writer
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★ 7.2
Runaway Train
1985 Writer
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★ 4.3
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984 Writer
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Dojo Yaburi
1982 Writer
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★ 7.5
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 Writer
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★ 7.3
Dodes'ka-den
1970 Writer
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★ 7.1
Incident at Blood Pass
1970 Writer
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★ 7.2
The Last Day of Hsianyang
1968 Writer
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★ 7.0
Chiisai tôbôsha
1966 Writer
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★ 6.0
The Boss of Pick-pocket Bay
1966 Writer
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★ 8.3
Red Beard
1965 Writer
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Rokunin no onna o koroshita otoko
1965 Writer
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Hana no o-Edo no hôkaibô
1965 Writer
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★ 7.2
Samurai from Nowhere
1964 Writer
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★ 6.8
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1964 Writer
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Eight Pirates
1964 Writer
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★ 8.4
High and Low
1963 Writer
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★ 6.9
Escape from Hell
1963 Writer
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★ 5.6
Cut the Shadow
1963 Writer
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Dai abare gojûsan tsugi
1963 Writer
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★ 8.0
Sanjuro
1962 Writer
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★ 6.9
Knightly Advice
1962 Writer
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Good Rascals
1962 Writer
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Hashizô no yakuza hangan
1962 Writer
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Shinobi ai
1962 Writer
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Genkurô Yoshitsune
1962 Writer
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★ 7.5
Ronin of Ako
1961 Writer
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Hanagasa futari wakushu
1961 Writer
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Tabiwa Oiroke
1961 Writer
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★ 7.7
The Magnificent Seven
1960 Writer
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★ 7.9
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 Writer
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★ 6.1
Anchin to Kiyohime
1960 Writer
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★ 6.1
Tange Sazen: yoto nuretsubame
1960 Writer
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★ 7.0
Lord Mito 3: All Star Version
1960 Writer
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★ 7.7
Scarier Than the Devil
1960 Writer
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★ 6.2
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
1960 Writer
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Onatsu torimono-chô: Tôrima
1960 Writer
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Three Female Racketeers
1960 Writer
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Mighty Shosuke
1960 Writer
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Hattari ni chô kenjû
1960 Writer
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★ 6.9
The Shogun Travels Incognito
1959 Writer
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★ 5.9
Blooded Spear
1959 Writer
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★ 6.7
Bride of Peacock Castle
1959 Writer
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★ 7.4
The Gaijin
1959 Writer
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Pineapple butai
1959 Writer
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★ 8.0
The Hidden Fortress
1958 Writer
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★ 7.5
Record of Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
1958 Writer
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The Female Fox Bath
1958 Writer
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Ukiyo buro
1958 Writer
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Fûraibô ichiban shôbu
1958 Writer
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Edokko matsuri
1958 Writer
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Hana no yukyo-den
1958 Writer
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Leave the Journey to the Whimsical Wind
1958 Writer
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Taikota ite fue fuite
1958 Writer
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Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Onibi Tôrô
1958 Writer
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★ 8.0
Throne of Blood
1957 Writer
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★ 7.2
The Lower Depths
1957 Writer
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★ 6.8
Nichiro senso shori no hishi: Tekichu odan sanbyaku-ri
1957 Writer
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Wasureji no gogo 8 ji 13 pun
1957 Writer
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Nezumi kozô shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjô
1957 Writer
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Mahiru no taiketsu
1957 Writer
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Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae dainibu
1957 Writer
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Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki
1957 Writer
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★ 4.8
Warning from Space
1956 Writer
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★ 6.9
The Ghost of Yotsuya
1956 Writer
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★ 5.9
Kyûketsu-ga
1956 Writer
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★ 5.9
Peach Boy
1956 Writer
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The Fighting Birds
1956 Writer
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Gogo 8 ji 13 pun
1956 Writer
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Zenigata Heijitori monohikae: Shi bijin buro
1956 Writer
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Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956 Writer
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Nezumi kozô shinobi komi hikae
1956 Writer
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Otoko no hanamichi
1956 Writer
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Kage ni ita otoko
1956 Writer
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Nemuri Kyôshirô burai hikae
1956 Writer
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★ 7.3
I Live in Fear
1955 Writer
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★ 5.7
Burûba
1955 Writer
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The Thief and the Magistrate
1955 Writer
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Oshun torimonochô - Nazo no ama goten
1955 Writer
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★ 8.6
Seven Samurai
1954 Writer
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★ 6.0
Jirochô sangokushi: hatsu iwai Shimizu Minato
1954 Writer
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Gohiiki rokka sen: Suttobi otoko
1954 Writer
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Umon torimono-chô: Yôki yashiki
1954 Writer
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The Black Fury
1954 Writer
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Utsukushiki taka
1954 Writer
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★ 7.5
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953 Writer
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★ 4.2
Jirochô sangokushi: Jirochô to Ishimatsu
1953 Writer
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★ 6.8
Jirochô sangokushi: seizoroi Shimizu Minato
1953 Writer
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Tenpô rokkasen: Yakuza ôkami
1953 Writer
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★ 8.3
Ikiru
1952 Writer
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★ 7.2
Tokyo no ekubo
1952 Writer
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Yagura daiko
1952 Writer
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Jôenkyô
1952 Writer
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Rikon
1952 Writer