Ryuzo Kikushima
Writing

Ryuzo Kikushima

Born 28 January 1914 · Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan · Died 18 March 1989

Japanese screenwriter and film producer who is best known for co-writing the screenplays for several Akira Kurosawa films, including Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo and High and Low. He also produced several of Kurosawa's early 1960s films. In addition to his work with Kurosawa, screenplays he wrote or co-wrote include Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hiroshi Inagaki's Arashi and The Birth of Japan, and Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on which he also served as producer.

Known for

Yojimbo
High and Low
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
The Hidden Fortress
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Red Beard
Stray Dog
The Bad Sleep Well
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Scandal
Princess from the Moon
Tsubaki Sanjuro
My Phoenix
The Demon Comes in Spring
Princess from the Moon
The Greatest Man in the World
Willful Murder
Shag
Ame no meguri ai
The Sorrow of Paris
Kaoyaku
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Gateway to Glory
The Magoichi Saga
Tsugaru zessho
Trigger-Happy
春日和
Red Beard
Hoodlum Soldier
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
High and Low
Fifty-Fifty
She Came For Love
Legacy of the 500,000
Zero Escape Visibility
Sanjuro
Yoru no keisha
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Yojimbo
Shadow of a Flower
The Bad Sleep Well
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Afraid to Die
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Life of a Country Doctor
White Cliffs
Ôana
Across the Darkness
The Three Treasures
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Fox and Raccoon
The Hidden Fortress
The Undefeated Woman
The Days of Evil Women
The Gion Tempest
Fancy Talker
Throne of Blood
Last Days of the Samurai
The Eleventh Hour
The Unbalanced Wheel
The Storm
Dotanba
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Underworld
Gendai no yokubô
The Wicked Boy
The Samurai of Edo
Vanished Enlisted Man
Six Assassins
No Time for Tears
A Man Among Men
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Till We Meet Again
The Immortal Pitcher
Hirate Miki the Swordman
Hanran
Kunisada Chūji
The Black Current
Made in Japan
The End of the Night
Tange Sazen
Daigaku no kotengu
Scandal
Stray Dog
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