Kōhei Oguri
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 29, 1945
- 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.
Movies with Kōhei Oguri
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories 2011 · ★ 3.0
- What's a Director? 2006
Movies directed by Kōhei Oguri
- Muddy River 1981 · ★ 7.3
- The Buried Forest 2005 · ★ 6.6
- The Sting of Death 1990 · ★ 5.7
- Sleeping Man 1996 · ★ 7.8
- Foujita 2015 · ★ 5.2
- For Kayako 1984 · ★ 6.4