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