Kōhei Oguri
Born October 29, 1945 in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Kōhei Oguri
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Oguri Kohei "Foujita" at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival · CC BY 2.0
- Name
- Kōhei Oguri
- Born
- 29 October 1945
- Birthplace
- Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Waseda University
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Kōhei Oguri • Born — 29 October 1945 • Birthplace — Maebashi, Gunma, Japan • Occupation — Film director
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Kōhei Oguri, recorded as a film director, was born in 1945. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Career
Career
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.
Filmography
Filmography
• Muddy River (泥の河, Doro no kawa) (1981) • Kayako no tame ni (伽倻子のために) (1984) • The Sting of Death (死の棘, Shi no toge) (1990) • Sleeping Man (眠る男) (1996) • Umoregi (埋もれ木) (2005) • Foujita (藤田) (2015)
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The scholarly and documentary record stands as follows. Recorded as having received Medal with Purple Ribbon and Mainichi Film Award for Best Director.
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- “Kōhei Oguri”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2573243: Kōhei Oguri
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scholarly publication
- Water flowing underground: The films of Oguri Kōhei, Japan Forum, 1992
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1992
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- 1.小栗康平. kotobank.jp.
- 2.Kohei Oguri’s ‘Foujita’ struggles to win over foreign audiences. The Japan Times. . 18 novembre 2015. lire en.
- 3.750 people, record 19 groups to receive Medals of Honor. The Japan Times. . 3 novembre 2006. lire en.
- 4.New Directors Award (version archivée). www.dgj.or.jp.
- 5.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (1982年). www.japan-academy-prize.jp.
- 6.Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994. Mcfarland. 1996. 9-780786-400324.
- 7.１９８１年 第２４回 ブルーリボン賞. www.allcinema.net.
- 8.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1981年). mainichi.jp.
- 9.Hōchi Film Awards.
- 10.Moscow International Film Festival 1981 (archive). moscowfilmfestival.ru.
- 11.L'Aiguillon de la mort (1990) - Festival de Cannes
- 12.Festival Awards 1990. fipresci.org.
- 13.Palmarès du Festival des films du monde de Montréal - 1996 (version archivée). www.ffm-montreal.org.
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