Kōhei Oguri Explained

Kōhei Oguri
Birth Date:	29 October 1945
Birth Place:	Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Occupation:	Film director

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Career

Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University.^[1] He made his directorial debut in 1981 with Muddy River, which earned him both a Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year^[2] and a citation in the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award.^[3] Muddy River was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film^[4] and won the Silver Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.^[5] In 1985 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.^[6]

His film The Sting of Death won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.^[7] He has also authored several books.

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)

External links

• • Oguri Kōhei official Site (in Japanese)
• Web site: Mes. Tom. Interview: Kohei Oguri. Midnight Eye. 30 June 2011. 22 November 2005.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Oguri Kōhei. Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. 30 June 2011.
2. Web site: Dai 5-kai Nihon Akademī Shō yūshū sakuhin. Japan Academy Prize. 30 June 2011.
3. Web site: Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō . Directors Guild of Japan . Japanese . 11 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122022302/http://dgj.or.jp/award_g/ . 22 November 2010 .
4. Web site: The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 30 June 2011.
5. Web site: 12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981) . 2013-01-26 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050907/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1981 . 2013-04-21 .
6. Web site: 14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985) . 2013-02-08 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130316084353/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1985 . 2013-03-16 .
7. Web site: Festival de Cannes: The Sting of Death . 2009-08-06. festival-cannes.com.