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Hideo Oguni

Writer, Additional Credits
Born July 9, 1904Died February 5, 1996 (91 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Throne of Blood
  • Battle Beyond the Stars
  • The Warrior and the Sorceress
  • Warning from Space
  • The Last Day of Hsianyang

Known For

  • Seven Samurai
  • Ran
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • Ikiru
  • The Hidden Fortress
  • High and Low
  • Throne of Blood
  • Living
  • Sanjuro
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Red Beard
  • Runaway Train
  • I Live in Fear
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Battle Beyond the Stars
  • The Lower Depths
  • Dodes'ka-den
  • The Warrior and the Sorceress
  • Warning from Space
  • Samurai from Nowhere
  • Where Chimneys Are Seen
  • The Last Princess
  • Releasing Aug 22, 2025
  • Anchin to Kiyohime

Filmography

2025
Highest 2 Lowest · as Original Film Writer
2022
Living · as Original Film Writer
2007
Tsubaki Sanjûrô · as Screenplay
1985
Ran · as Screenplay
1984
The Warrior and the Sorceress · as Original Film Writer
1970
Dodes'ka-den · as Screenplay
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Screenplay
1970
1966
Chiisai tôbôsha · as Screenplay
1966
1965
Red Beard · as Screenplay
1964
Eight Pirates · as Screenplay
1964
1964
1963
Cut the Shadow · as Screenplay
1963
High and Low · as Screenplay
1963
Escape from Hell · as Screenplay
1962
Knightly Advice · as Screenplay
1962
Good Rascals · as Screenplay
1962
Sanjuro · as Screenplay
1961
Aoi no abarembo · as Screenplay
1961
Ronin of Ako · as Screenplay
1961
1960
1960
1960
1960
1960
1959
1958
The Hidden Fortress · as Screenplay
1958
1957
1957
The Lower Depths · as Screenplay
1957
Throne of Blood · as Screenplay
1956
The Ghost of Yotsuya · as Screenplay
1956
Kyûketsu-ga · as Screenplay
1956
1956
1955
1955
1954
Seven Samurai · as Screenplay
1954
1953
Reunion · as Screenplay
1953
1953
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen · as Screenplay
1952
Ikiru · as Screenplay
1945

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