Ryuzo Kikushima
Writing
Born: January 28, 1914 · Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Died: March 18, 1989 (aged 75)
Biography
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
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Yojimbo
1961
High and Low
1963
Last Man Standing
1996
Throne of Blood
1957
Sanjuro
1962
The Hidden Fortress
1958
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
Red Beard
1965
Stray Dog
1949
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
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Directing (1)
Writing (100)
Highest 2 Lowest
Original Film Writer
High and Low
Screenplay
Red Beard
Screenplay
A Fistful of Dollars
Original Story
Kogarashi Monjiro
Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
Last Man Standing
Original Film Writer
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
Stray Dog
Writer
The Bad Sleep Well
Writer
The Hidden Fortress
Screenplay
Yojimbo
Screenplay
Django
Original Film Writer
Inferno
Original Film Writer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Screenplay
Sanjuro
Screenplay
Till We Meet Again
Screenplay
Hashū Hankachō
Writer
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Original Film Writer
Kaoyaku
Screenplay
Kunisada Chūji
Writer
Princess from the Moon
Writer
Willful Murder
Screenplay
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Writer
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Writer
Scandal
Screenplay
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Screenplay
The Last Princess
Original Story
The Underworld
Screenplay
Gendai no yokubô
Screenplay
The Last Round
Original Film Writer
The Three Treasures
Writer
No Time for Tears
Writer
春日和
Screenplay
春日和
Original Story
Daigaku no kotengu
Screenplay
Machi no kotengu
Adaptation
Made in Japan
Screenplay
Gateway to Glory
Screenplay
The Immortal Pitcher
Screenplay
A Man Among Men
Story
She Came For Love
Screenplay
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Original Story
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Adaptation
Afraid to Die
Writer
Stray Dog
Original Story
You Can If You Try
Adaptation
The Greatest Man in the World
Screenplay
The End of the Night
Writer
Zero Escape Visibility
Writer
The Eleventh Hour
Novel
Fancy Talker
Screenplay
The Wicked Boy
Screenplay
Shag
Writer
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Writer
The Storm
Writer
Legacy of the 500,000
Screenplay
Hoodlum Soldier
Screenplay
The Samurai of Edo
Screenplay
Trigger-Happy
Writer
Across the Darkness
Writer
Shadow of a Flower
Screenplay
Vanished Enlisted Man
Screenplay
Dotanba
Screenplay
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
Writer
Yoru no keisha
Screenplay
The Demon Comes in Spring
Screenplay
The Sorrow of Paris
Screenplay
The Gion Tempest
Screenplay
The Days of Evil Women
Screenplay
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Screenplay
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Writer
Fifty-Fifty
Screenplay
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Screenplay
Ame no meguri ai
Original Story
Ame no meguri ai
Screenplay
Ôana
Screenplay
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
Story
The Magoichi Saga
Screenplay
Fox and Raccoon
Screenplay
White Cliffs
Writer
Last Days of the Samurai
Screenplay
12 Ounces to Glory
Adaptation
12 Ounces to Glory
Original Story
Tange Sazen
Screenplay
Tsugaru zessho
Screenplay
Hanran
Screenplay
The Black Current
Screenplay
The Unbalanced Wheel
Screenplay
My Phoenix
Screenplay
The Undefeated Woman
Writer
The Fighter in the Ring
Original Concept
Live Again Tomorrow
Original Story
Cliff of Death
Original Story
Hirate Miki the Swordman
Screenplay
Six Assassins
Writer
Life of a Country Doctor
Screenplay
Life of a Country Doctor
Adaptation
黒の斜面
Original Story
Tsuma no kunshō
Adaptation