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Japanese film director and screenwriter (born 1945)

Kōhei Oguri

Born	(1945-10-29) October 29, 1945 (age 79) 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.

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.

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Kōhei Oguri at IMDb
Oguri Kōhei official Site (in Japanese)
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v t e Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year
Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983) Hideo Gosha (1984) Juzo Itami (1985) Shinichiro Sawai (1986) Kinji Fukasaku (1987) Juzo Itami (1988) Junya Sato (1989) Shōhei Imamura (1990) Masahiro Shinoda (1991) Kihachi Okamoto (1992) Masayuki Suo (1993) Yoji Yamada (1994) Kinji Fukasaku (1995) Kaneto Shindo (1996) Masayuki Suo (1997) Shohei Imamura (1998) Hideyuki Hirayama (1999) Yasuo Furuhata (2000) Junji Sakamoto (2001) Isao Yukisada (2002) Yoji Yamada (2003) Yoshimitsu Morita (2004) Yoichi Sai (2005) Takashi Yamazaki (2006) Lee Sang-il (2007) Joji Matsuoka (2008) Yōjirō Takita (2009) Daisaku Kimura (2010) Tetsuya Nakashima (2011) Izuru Narushima (2012) Daihachi Yoshida (2013) Yuya Ishii (2014) Takashi Yamazaki (2015) Hirokazu Kore-eda (2016) Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi (2017) Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda (2019) Hideki Takeuchi (2020) Setsurō Wakamatsu (2021) Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2022) Kei Ishikawa (2023) Wim Wenders (2024)

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