Hideo Oguni

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 cowriting 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 films twopart structure Film critic Donald Richie regarded him as the humanist among Kurosawas 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 Goshos Entotsu no mieru basho in 1953 Koji Shimas Warning from Space in 1956 Tora Tora Tora and Hiroshi Inagakis Machibuse in 1970