---
name: "Eijiro Hisaita"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eijiro-hisaita"
fi1m_id: "eijiro-hisaita"
imdb_id: "nm0386750"
tmdb_id: 123385
wikidata_id: "Q11369448"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 July 1898"
died: "9 June 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:24:45.892637+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Eijiro Hisaita

## Identity

Eijiro Hisaita

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eijiro-hisaita
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eijiro-hisaita
- **IMDb ID:** nm0386750
- **TMDB ID:** 123385
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11369448
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11369448, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386750/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123385

Writer. Born 3 July 1898 in Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan. Died 9 June 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 July 1898, Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan
- **Died:** 9 June 1976
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11369448, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386750/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123385

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*High and Low*](https://film.one/film/high-and-low.md) (90)

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## Biography

Eijirō Hisaita (1898–1976) was a Japanese screenwriter. He co-wrote the screenplay for *High and Low* (1963), directed by Akira Kurosawa, with Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima and Kurosawa.

Hisaita collaborated with Kurosawa on several postwar films, including *No Regrets for Our Youth* (1946), *The Idiot* (1951) and *The Bad Sleep Well* (1960). He also wrote screenplays for other directors, such as *Morning for the Osone Family* (1946).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, jfdb.jp.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *High and Low* (1963), Fi1m 90, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/high-and-low.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Highest 2 Lowest* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *Women of the Night* (2022), Original Story
- *The Kii River* (1966), Screenplay
- *A Million Girls* (1963), Writer
- *High and Low* (1963), Screenplay — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/high-and-low.md)
- *Mother Country* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Bad Sleep Well* (1960), Writer
- *Quiet Dawn in the Front* (1959), Screenplay
- *Samurai Nippon* (1957), Screenplay
- *Edo no yubae* (1954), Adaptation
- *Firefly Grass* (1954), Screenplay
- *Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to* (1952), Screenplay
- *Kare o korosu na* (1952), Screenplay
- *The Idiot* (1951), Screenplay
- *Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love* (1950), Screenplay
- *Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2* (1949), Writer
- *Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1* (1949), Screenplay
- *Apostasy* (1948), Screenplay
- *Women of the Night* (1948), Novel
- *Actress* (1947), Writer
- *No Regrets for Our Youth* (1946), Writer
- *Morning for the Osone Family* (1946), Screenplay
- *Kanchō umi no bara* (1945), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Eijiro Hisaita](https://film.one/media/person/104786/gallery-c935133307fb.jpg) Eijiro Hisaita — 朝日新聞社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Hisaita_Eijiro.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Eijiro Hisaita (1953)](https://film.one/media/person/104786/gallery-8a7aed56e6f1.jpg) Eijiro Hisaita (1953) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Eijiro_Hisaita_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 1964: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *Morning for the Osone Family*
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 1947: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *Morning for the Osone Family*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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