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Hideo Oguni
Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan
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 fi…
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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.
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2022
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2008
The Last Princess
Movie Original Story
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2007
Ikiru
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1989
Seven Warriors
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1985
Runaway Train
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1985
Ran
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1984
The Warrior and the Sorceress
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1983
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
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1982
Dojo Breaker
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1980
Battle Beyond the Stars
Movie Original Story
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1970
Dodes'ka-den
Movie Screenplay
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1970
Incident at Blood Pass
Movie Writer
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1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie Screenplay
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1966
The Little Runaway
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1966
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
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1965
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
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1965
The Man Who Killed Six Women
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1965
Red Beard
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1964
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
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1964
Tiger of the Sea
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1964
The Man Disappears Yesterday
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1964
Samurai from Nowhere
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1963
Rabble Tactics
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1963
High and Low
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1963
Cut the Shadow
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1963
Escape from Hell
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1963
53 Stages of Action
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1962
Yakuza Official
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1962
Genkuro Yoshitsune
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1962
Secret Love
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1962
Knightly Advice
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1962
Good Rascals
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1962
Sanjuro
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1961
Fine Man
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1961
Traveling of Two Young Men
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1961
Tabiwa Oiroke
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1961
The Ako Retainers
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1961
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
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1960
Scarier than the Devil
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