Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 29, 1945
Place of Birth
Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Credits
12 titles
Kōhei Oguri
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
Filmography
Foujita
Writer
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Self
What's a Director?
The Buried Forest
Director
Sleeping Man
Director
The Sting of Death
Director
For Kayako
Director
Muddy River
Director
House
First Assistant Director
Himiko
Assistant Director
Zone Fighter
Writer
Double Suicide
Assistant Director