Directing
Community Rating
6.7
TMDB estimate
Born
October 29, 1945 (age 80)
Born in
Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
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.
Foujita
as Writer, Director
2015
—
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
as Self
2011
—
What's a Director?
2006
—
The Buried Forest
as Director, Writer
2005
—
Sleeping Man
as Director, Screenplay
1996
—
The Sting of Death
as Director, Writer
1990
—
For Kayako
as Writer, Director
1984
—
Muddy River
as Director
1981
—
House
as First Assistant Director
1977
—
Himiko
as Assistant Director
1974
—
Zone Fighter
as Writer, Director
1973
—
Double Suicide
as Assistant Director
1969
—