Ryuzo Kikushima
- Writing
- January 28, 1914 · Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
- March 18, 1989
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
Filmography
- Highest 2 Lowest · Original Film Writer
- 黒の斜面 · Story
- The Last Princess · Story
- Tsubaki Sanjuro · Writer
- Inferno · Original Film Writer
- Last Man Standing · Original Film Writer
- My Phoenix · Screenplay
- The Demon Comes in Spring · Screenplay
- Princess from the Moon · Writer
- The Greatest Man in the World · Screenplay
- The Warrior and the Sorceress · Original Film Writer
- Cliff of Death · Story
- Willful Murder · Screenplay
- Shag · Writer
- Ame no meguri ai · Story, Screenplay
- The Last Round · Original Film Writer
- The Sorrow of Paris · Screenplay
- Hashū Hankachō · Writer
- Stray Dog · Story
- Kogarashi Monjiro · Writer
- Man on a False Flight · Story, Screenplay
- Kaoyaku · Screenplay
- Live Again Tomorrow · Story
- Tora! Tora! Tora! · Screenplay
- The Magoichi Saga · Screenplay
- Gateway to Glory · Screenplay
- Tsugaru zessho · Screenplay
- Trigger-Happy · Writer
- 春日和 · Screenplay, Story
- Django · Original Film Writer
- You Can If You Try · Adaptation
- Hoodlum Soldier · Screenplay
- Red Beard · Producer, Screenplay
- A Fistful of Dollars · Story
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers · Writer
- Fumiko's Five Benefactors · Writer
- She Came For Love · Screenplay
- Zero Escape Visibility · Writer
- Fifty-Fifty · Screenplay
- Legacy of the 500,000 · Screenplay
- High and Low · Screenplay, Producer
- Shin kitsune to tanuki · Screenplay
- Yoru no keisha · Screenplay
- Sanjuro · Screenplay, Producer
- Shadow of a Flower · Screenplay
- The Age of Lawless Moneymaking · Story, Adaptation
- Yojimbo · Executive producer, Screenplay
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi · Producer, Screenplay
- The Bad Sleep Well · Writer
- 12 Ounces to Glory · Adaptation, Story
- Life of a Country Doctor · Screenplay, Adaptation
- Ôana · Screenplay
- White Cliffs · Writer
- Afraid to Die · Writer
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · Producer, Screenplay
- Across the Darkness · Writer
- The Three Treasures · Writer
- Tsuma no kunshō · Adaptation
- Fox and Raccoon · Screenplay
- The Story of Iron Arm Inao · Writer
- The Hidden Fortress · Screenplay
- The Days of Evil Women · Screenplay
- The Undefeated Woman · Writer
- The Gion Tempest · Screenplay
- Fancy Talker · Screenplay
- The Unbalanced Wheel · Screenplay
- The Eleventh Hour · Novel
- Last Days of the Samurai · Screenplay
- Throne of Blood · Screenplay
- Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō · Story
- Dotanba · Director, Screenplay
- The Storm · Writer
- The Fighter in the Ring · Original Concept
- Will-o'-the-Wisp · Writer
- Gendai no yokubô · Screenplay
- The Wicked Boy · Screenplay
- The Underworld · Screenplay
- Rikidozan: Man of Fury · Screenplay
- The Samurai of Edo · Screenplay
- Six Assassins · Writer