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Hideo Oguni

Hideo Oguni

Known For Writing
Birthday Jul 09, 1904
Died Feb 05, 1996 (91)
Birthplace Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Popularity 4 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Aug 09, 2025
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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 fi ... lm 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.

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Runaway Train

Runaway Train

1985

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The Warrior and the Sorceress

The Warrior and the Sorceress

1984

Original Film Writer

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

Screenplay

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

1954

Screenplay

The Opium War

The Opium War

1943

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