Name
Kōhei Oguri
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1945-10-29 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradi...
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Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighb...
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Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become clo...
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Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their ...
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Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local envir...
- 2006 What's a Director?
- 2011 Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
