Kōhei Oguri

Kōhei Oguri (小栗康平, Oguri Kōhei; born October 29, 1945 in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Kōhei Oguri
Born	(1945-10-29) October 29, 1945 (age 79) Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Occupation	Film director

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.^[1]

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)