
Person
Kōhei Oguri
Directing · Born 1945-10-29 · Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Biography
Kōhei Oguri (小栗康平, Oguri Kōhei, born October 29, 1945, in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University. He made his directorial debut in 1981 with Muddy River, which earned him both a Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and a citation in the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. Muddy River was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Silver Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1985 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. His film The Sting of Death won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. He has also authored several books.
Known for

Zone Fighter
Writer

House
First Assistant Director

The Sting of Death
Director

Himiko
Assistant Director

Sleeping Man
Director

Double Suicide
Assistant Director

Muddy River
Director

Foujita
Writer

What's a Director?
2006

The Buried Forest
Director
Filmography
- 2015FoujitaWriter
- 2011Japanese Cinema: New TerritoriesSelf
- 2006What's a Director?
- 2005The Buried ForestDirector
- 1996Sleeping ManDirector
- 1990The Sting of DeathDirector
- 1984For KayakoDirector
- 1981Muddy RiverDirector
- 1977HouseFirst Assistant Director
- 1974HimikoAssistant Director
- 1973Zone FighterWriter
- 1969Double SuicideAssistant Director
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