Hideo Oguni (小国 英雄, Oguni Hideo, 9 July 1904 – 5 February 1996[1]) 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.[2] 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.[3] Film critic Donald Richie regarded him as the "humanist" among Kurosawa's writers.[4] 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.[5]
Writing credits other than for Kurosawa films include Heinosuke Gosho's Where Chimneys Are Seen in 1953, Koji Shima's Warning from Space in 1956, Bin Kato's Heiji Zenigata: Chase the Demon Lantern in 1958, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Hiroshi Inagaki's Machibuse in 1970.[2]
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^ ab"Hideo Oguni". IMDb. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
^Russell, C. (2011). Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited. A&C Black. p. 92. ISBN 9781441133274.
^Richie, D. (2012). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. Kodansha. p. 118. ISBN 9781568364391.
^Sunrider, V. (29 January 2013). "Akira Kurosawa to Receive Writers Guild Award". Filmofilia. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
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