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 (96)
A Fistful of Dollars
Original Story
Highest 2 Lowest
Original Film Writer
High and Low
Screenplay
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Screenplay
Kogarashi Monjiro
Writer
Yojimbo
Screenplay
Last Man Standing
Original Film Writer
Sanjuro
Screenplay
Throne of Blood
Screenplay
Red Beard
Screenplay
The Hidden Fortress
Screenplay
Stray Dog
Writer
The Bad Sleep Well
Writer
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Original Film Writer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Screenplay
Fancy Talker
Screenplay
The Three Treasures
Writer
The Demon Comes in Spring
Screenplay
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Writer
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Writer
Life of a Country Doctor
Screenplay
Life of a Country Doctor
Adaptation
Princess from the Moon
Writer
Scandal
Screenplay
Machi no kotengu
Adaptation
Daigaku no kotengu
Screenplay
12 Ounces to Glory
Adaptation
12 Ounces to Glory
Original Story
My Phoenix
Screenplay
Till We Meet Again
Screenplay
The Magoichi Saga
Screenplay
Gateway to Glory
Screenplay
You Can If You Try
Adaptation
Hashū Hankachō
Writer
Willful Murder
Screenplay
The Black Current
Screenplay
Hoodlum Soldier
Screenplay
The Days of Evil Women
Screenplay
Gendai no yokubô
Screenplay
Fifty-Fifty
Screenplay
Hanran
Screenplay
The Last Princess
Original Story
Fox and Raccoon
Screenplay
The Wicked Boy
Screenplay
The Unbalanced Wheel
Screenplay
She Came For Love
Screenplay
Last Days of the Samurai
Screenplay
Stray Dog
Original Story
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Screenplay
Hirate Miki the Swordman
Screenplay
Shadow of a Flower
Screenplay
Tange Sazen
Screenplay
The Underworld
Screenplay
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Writer
The Eleventh Hour
Novel
Afraid to Die
Writer
The Immortal Pitcher
Screenplay
Ame no meguri ai
Original Story
Ame no meguri ai
Screenplay
The Undefeated Woman
Writer
The Storm
Writer
A Man Among Men
Story
Live Again Tomorrow
Original Story
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Writer
The Sorrow of Paris
Screenplay
The End of the Night
Writer
No Time for Tears
Writer
Shag
Writer
Legacy of the 500,000
Screenplay
Kaoyaku
Screenplay
Dotanba
Screenplay
White Cliffs
Writer
The Samurai of Edo
Screenplay
春日和
Screenplay
春日和
Original Story
Tsugaru zessho
Screenplay
The Fighter in the Ring
Original Concept
Cliff of Death
Original Story
Yoru no keisha
Screenplay
Vanished Enlisted Man
Screenplay
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Screenplay
The Gion Tempest
Screenplay
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Screenplay
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Original Story
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Adaptation
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
Story
Six Assassins
Writer
Zero Escape Visibility
Writer
The Greatest Man in the World
Screenplay
Across the Darkness
Writer
Ôana
Screenplay
黒の斜面
Original Story
Trigger-Happy
Writer
Made in Japan
Screenplay
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
Writer
Kunisada Chūji
Writer