Hideo Oguni (å° å›½ 英雄, Oguni Hideo, 9 July 1904 â€" 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 RyūzŠKikushima 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.
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 RyūzŠKikushima 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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