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.
Known For
Seven Samurai
(1954)
Screenplay
Ikiru
(1952)
Screenplay
High and Low
(1963)
Screenplay
Ran
(1985)
Screenplay
Living
(2022)
Original Film Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
Screenplay
The Hidden Fortress
(1958)
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
(1957)
Screenplay
Red Beard
(1965)
Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Writer
Sanjuro
(1962)
Screenplay
Dodes'ka-den
(1970)
Screenplay
The Lower Depths
(1957)
Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
(1984)
Original Film Writer
Full Filmography
Writing
Happy Daughter
(1934)
Writer
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
(1938)
Screenplay
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
(1938)
Writer
Enoken's Hokaibo
(1938)
Screenplay
My Daughter's Only Wish
(1939)
Writer
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
(1939)
Screenplay and Original Story
明朗五人男
(1940)
Screenplay
Zoku Shimizu Minato
(1940)
Screenplay and Original Story
China Night
(1940)
Screenplay
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
(1941)
Writer
Iemitsu and Hikoza
(1941)
Writer
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
(1941)
Original Story and Screenplay
The Man Who Waited
(1942)
Screenplay
Sky of Hope
(1942)
Writer
Onna keizu
(1942)
Writer
The Opium War
(1943)
Screenplay
Nichijô no tatakai
(1944)
Screenplay
Sinking the Unsinkable
(1944)
Screenplay
The Dawn of Freedom
(1944)
Screenplay
Ryū no misaki
(1945)
Screenplay
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
(1945)
Writer
Iki na fûraibô
(1946)
Screenplay
Lord for a Night
(1946)
Screenplay
Rira no hana wasureji
(1947)
Adaptation
Four Love Stories
(1947)
Screenplay
These Foolish Times
(1947)
Writer
Ghost Train
(1949)
Screenplay
When We Came Back
(1950)
Writer
豪快三人男
(1951)
Writer
Elegy
(1951)
Story
Pirates
(1951)
Writer
Dimple of Tokyo
(1952)
Screenplay
Divorce
(1952)
Writer
The Eyes of Two People
(1952)
Writer
Ikiru
(1952)
Screenplay
Reunion
(1953)
Screenplay
Where Chimneys Are Seen
(1953)
Screenplay
The Black Fury
(1954)
Writer
Seven Samurai
(1954)
Screenplay
Brooba
(1955)
Screenplay
Thief and Magistrate
(1955)
Writer
I Live in Fear
(1955)
Writer
The Beautiful Nuns
(1955)
Writer
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
(1956)
Screenplay
The Vampire Moth
(1956)
Screenplay
Excursion to Treasure Isle
(1956)
Screenplay
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
(1956)
Writer
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
(1956)
Screenplay
Warning from Space
(1956)
Screenplay
Fighting Birds
(1956)
Writer
Sisters of Destiny
(1956)
Screenplay
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
(1957)
Screenplay
Advance Patrol
(1957)
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
(1957)
Screenplay
The Lower Depths
(1957)
Screenplay
Shogun's Holiday
(1958)
Screenplay
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
(1958)
Writer
Travels of Lord Mito
(1958)
Screenplay
花の遊侠伝
(1958)
Screenplay
The Hidden Fortress
(1958)
Screenplay
Megitsune Buro
(1958)
Writer
Bride of Peacock Castle
(1959)
Screenplay
Blooded Spear
(1959)
Screenplay
Pineapple Butai
(1959)
Screenplay
The Gaijin
(1959)
Writer
The Edo Official and Apprentice
(1959)
Original Story
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
(1959)
Screenplay
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
(1960)
Screenplay
Lord Mito: All Star Version
(1960)
Screenplay
Mighty Shosuke
(1960)
Screenplay
Scarier than the Devil
(1960)
Screenplay
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
(1960)
Screenplay
The Priest and the Beauty
(1960)
Writer
The Bad Sleep Well
(1960)
Writer
Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
(1960)
Screenplay
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
(1961)
Screenplay
Fine Man
(1961)
Screenplay
The Ako Retainers
(1961)
Screenplay
Tabiwa Oiroke
(1961)
Writer
Good Rascals
(1962)
Screenplay
Knightly Advice
(1962)
Screenplay
Shinobi ai
(1962)
Screenplay
Genkuro Yoshitsune
(1962)
Screenplay
Sanjuro
(1962)
Screenplay
Yakuza Official
(1962)
Screenplay
Cut the Shadow
(1963)
Screenplay
Rabble Tactics
(1963)
Screenplay
Escape from Hell
(1963)
Screenplay
High and Low
(1963)
Screenplay
53 Stages of Action
(1963)
Original Story
The Man Disappears Yesterday
(1964)
Writer
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
(1964)
Screenplay
Samurai from Nowhere
(1964)
Writer
Tiger of the Sea
(1964)
Original Story
Red Beard
(1965)
Screenplay
The Little Runaway
(1966)
Screenplay
Dodes'ka-den
(1970)
Screenplay
Incident at Blood Pass
(1970)
Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(1970)
Screenplay
Dojo Breaker
(1982)
Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
(1984)
Original Film Writer
Ran
(1985)
Screenplay
Ikiru
(2007)
Screenplay
The Last Princess
(2008)
Original Story
Living
(2022)
Original Film Writer
Crew