Kōhei Oguri

Kōhei Oguri
Born October 29, 1945 (1945-10-29) (age 66)
Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Occupation Film director

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

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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] His film The Sting of Death won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[5] He has also authored several books.[1]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Oguri Kōhei". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B0%8F%E6%A0%97%E5%BA%B7%E5%B9%B3. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 
  2. ^ "Dai 5-kai Nihon Akademī Shō yūshū sakuhin". Japan Academy Prize. http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=5. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. http://www.dgj.or.jp/award_g/. Retrieved 11 December 2010. 
  4. ^ "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/54th-winners.html. Retrieved 30 June 2011. 
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Sting of Death". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/165/year/1990.html. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 

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