Directing
Kōhei Oguri
Born 1945-10-29 · 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.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
7.8Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
Sleeping Man
1996
7.8Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
Sleeping Man
1996
5.7Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
The Sting of Death
1990
5.7Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
The Sting of Death
1990
7.3Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
Muddy River
1981
5.2A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Foujita
2015
5.2A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Foujita
2015
6.6Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
The Buried Forest
2005
6.6Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
The Buried Forest
2005
6.4A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Sanjun, a Korean.
For Kayako
1984
6.4A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Sanjun, a Korean.
For Kayako
1984