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 is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed and co-written (with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni) by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. Th ...

'', '' The Seven Samurai'', '' Throne of Blood'' and ''

The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold without knowing that he is a general and the woman is a pri ...

''. 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 was a Japanese writer and film producer who is best known for co-writing the screenplays for several Akira Kurosawa films, including ''Throne of Blood'', ''The Hidden Fortress'', ''Yojimbo'' and '' High and Low''. He also produced several of Kur ...

were awarded the Jean Renoir Award by the Writers Guild of America West. Writing credits other than for Kurosawa films include Heinosuke Gosho's ''

Where Chimneys Are Seen , also titled ''Four Chimneys'', is a 1953 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It was entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. Based on a novel by Rinzō Shiina, ''Where Chimneys Are Seen'' is regarded as one ...

'' in 1953,

Koji Shima was a Japanese film director, actor, and screenwriter. Career Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu stu ...

's ''

Warning from Space is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' science fiction film released in January 1956 by Daiei, and was the first Japanese science fiction film to be produced in color. In the film's plot, starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn o ...

'' in 1956,

Bin Kato (; June 20, 1907 – July 27, 1982
��''raizofan.net'', 2009年10月15日閲覧。) was a Japanese film director and screenwr ...

's '' Heiji Zenigata: Chase the Demon Lantern'' in 1958, ''

Tora! Tora! Tora! ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' ( ja, トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 epic film, epic war film that dramatizes the Empire of Japan, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer, T ...

'', and Hiroshi Inagaki's ''

Machibuse ''Machibuse'' ( ja, 待ち伏せ) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. Cast * Toshiro Mifune − 'Yojimbo' * Yujiro Ishihara − Yataro * Ruriko Asaoka − Okuni * Shintaro Katsu − Gentetsu * Kinnosuke Nakamura − Heima ...

'' in 1970.

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