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.
Wrote 123
2020s
- 2025
- 2022
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
Ikiru
Screenplay
1980s
- 1989
Seven Warriors
Original Film Writer
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
Dojo Breaker
Screenplay
- 1980
1970s
- 1970
Incident at Blood Pass
Writer
1960s
- 1966
The Little Runaway
Screenplay
- 1965
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Screenplay
- 1964
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Screenplay
The Man Disappears Yesterday
Writer
- 1963
Cut the Shadow
Screenplay
Escape from Hell
Screenplay
53 Stages of Action
Original Story
- 1962
Yakuza Official
Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
Screenplay
Secret Love
Screenplay
Knightly Advice
Screenplay
Good Rascals
Screenplay
- 1961
Fine Man
Screenplay
Traveling of Two Young Men
Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
Writer
The Ako Retainers
Screenplay
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Screenplay
- 1960
Scarier than the Devil
Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
Screenplay
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
Screenplay
Anchin and Kiyohime
Writer
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Screenplay
Oja sando gosa
Screenplay
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Screenplay
1950s
- 1959
Pineapple Butai
Screenplay
Blooded Spear
Screenplay
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Original Story
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Screenplay
The Gaijin
Writer
Bride of Peacock Castle
Screenplay
- 1958
Travels of Lord Mito
Screenplay
Ukiyo buro
Screenplay
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō
Adaptation
Megitsune Buro
Writer
Fūraibō ichiban shōbu
Screenplay
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Writer
Shogun's Holiday
Screenplay
- 1957
Advance Patrol
Screenplay
The Lower Depths
Screenplay
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki
Adaptation
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Screenplay
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae: Ne no koku sanjō
Screenplay
- 1956
A Man's Flower Path
Original Story
Five Patriots of Kyoto
Screenplay
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Screenplay
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Screenplay
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Screenplay
Fighting Birds
Writer
Nezumi Kozō shinobi komi hikae
Adaptation
Vampire Moth
Screenplay
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Dead Beauty in the Bathhouse
Screenplay
Warning from Space
Screenplay
- 1955
Thief and Magistrate
Writer
Brooba
Screenplay
- 1954
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Screenplay
The Mysterious House
Screenplay
Utsukushiki taka
Screenplay
- 1953
Reunion
Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Screenplay
- 1952
The Eyes of Two People
Writer
Dimple of Tokyo
Screenplay
Divorce
Writer
Grease Paint Serenade
Screenplay
- 1951
Pirates
Writer
豪快三人男
Writer
Elegy
Story
- 1950
When We Came Back
Writer
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Screenplay
1940s
- 1949
The Elephant Who Waited
Screenplay
Ghost Train
Screenplay
Good-Bye!
Screenplay
- 1948
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Writer
- 1947
These Foolish Times
Writer
Rira no hana wasureji
Adaptation
Four Love Stories
Screenplay
- 1946
- 1945
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Writer
Ryū no misaki
Screenplay
- 1944
Nichijô no tatakai
Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
Screenplay
- 1942
The Man Who Waited
Screenplay
Sky of Hope
Writer
- 1941
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Original Story, Screenplay
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Writer
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Writer
- 1940
明朗五人男
Screenplay
China Night
Screenplay
1930s
- 1939
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Screenplay, Original Story
- 1938
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Screenplay
Other crew 3
1960s
- 1966
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Script
- 1961
Tabiwa Oiroke
Script
1940s
- 1947
A Luxurious Ship for the Bridegroom
Script