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Hideo Oguni
Writing
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…
Filmography
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The Last Princess
2008
Ikiru
2007
Runaway Train
1985
Ran
1985
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984
Dojo Breaker
1982
Battle Beyond the Stars
1980
Dodes'ka-den
1970
Incident at Blood Pass
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Little Runaway
1966
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
1966
六人の女を殺した男
1965
Red Beard
1965
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
1964
Tiger of the Sea
1964
The Man Disappears Yesterday
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Rabble Tactics
1963
High and Low
1963
Cut the Shadow
1963
Escape from Hell
1963
53 Stages of Action
1963
Yakuza Official
1962
Genkuro Yoshitsune
1962
Secret Love
1962
Knightly Advice
1962
Good Rascals
1962
Sanjuro
1962
Fine Man
1961
Traveling of Two Young Men
1961
Tabiwa Oiroke
1961
The Ako Retainers
1961
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
1961
Scarier than the Devil
1960
Mighty Shosuke
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
1960
Anchin and Kiyohime
1960
Lord Mito: All Star Version
1960
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
1960
お嬢さん三度笠
1960
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
Pineapple Butai
1959
Blooded Spear
1959
The Edo Official and Apprentice
1959
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
1959
The Gaijin
1959
Bride of Peacock Castle
1959
The Hidden Fortress
1958
Travels of Lord Mito
1958
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
Ukiyo buro
1958
Megitsune Buro
1958
The Little Actress
The Little Actress
1958
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
1958
Shogun's Holiday
1958
Advance Patrol
1957
The Lower Depths
1957
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1957
Throne of Blood
1957
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
1956
Five Patriots of Kyoto
1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
Excursion to Treasure Isle
1956
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
1956
Fighting Birds
1956
The Vampire Moth
1956
Zenigata Heiji Case Files: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
1956
Warning from Space
1956
Thief and Magistrate
1955
I Live in Fear
1955
Brooba
1955
The Beautiful Nuns
1955
The Black Fury
1954
Seven Samurai
1954
Reunion
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953