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Hideo Oguni

Highest Rated: 100% The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Lowest Rated: 57% Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Birthday: Jul 9, 1904

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Birthplace: Aomori, Japan

For more than half a century, prolific screenwriter Hideo Oguni devoted himself to crafting stories that would become some of history's finest and most influential movies. Kicking off his career in the film industry in the early 1930s, the Japanese author mounted a résumé filled with historical gems. Oguni first hit his stride in earnest with a string of collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa and fellow screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, including "Ikiru" (1952) and "Seven Samurai" (1954). The accomplished writer carried this degree of artistic grandeur through the decades to follow straight up until his much later films, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970) and "Ran" (1985). In the interim period, Oguni experimented with drama, action, war films, and science fiction, showcasing unrivaled ingenuity at every turn.

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well
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100% 97% Seven Samurai Watchlist
100% 95% Sanjuro
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98% 97% Ikiru
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96% 95% High and Low
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96% 93% Throne of Blood
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96% 95% Ran
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96% 92% The Hidden Fortress
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73% 95% Red Beard
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73% 77% Dodes 'Ka-Den
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Filmography

Movies

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96% 95% Ran Writer $454.0K 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo vs the Tattooed Lord Creator - 1981
73% 77% Dodes 'Ka-Den Writer - 1970
57% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora! Screenwriter - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Incident at Blood Pass Screenwriter - 1970
73% 95% Red Beard Writer - 1965
96% 95% High and Low Writer - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Escape from Hell Screenwriter - 1963
100% 95% Sanjuro Writer - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ako Roshi Screenwriter - 1961
100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well Writer - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kujakujo no Hanayome Writer - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mito Komon Tenka no Fukushogun Screenwriter - 1959
96% 92% The Hidden Fortress Writer - 1958
96% 93% Throne of Blood Screenwriter - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vampire Moth Screenwriter - 1956
73% 76% I Live in Fear Writer - 1955
100% 97% Seven Samurai Writer $487.3K 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Where Chimneys Are Seen Screenwriter - 1953
98% 97% Ikiru Screenwriter $55.2K 1952