Ryuzo Kikushima
Writing · Born 1914-01-28 · age 75 at death · Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
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.
Titles
A Fistful of Dollars
Yojimbo
High and Low
Last Man Standing
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
The Hidden Fortress
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Highest 2 Lowest
Red Beard
Stray Dog
The Bad Sleep Well
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Scandal
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Princess from the Moon
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
The Last Princess
The Three Treasures
Afraid to Die
The Eleventh Hour
Stray Dog
Legacy of the 500,000
Tsubaki Sanjuro
The Magoichi Saga
Kaoyaku
Till We Meet Again
Hoodlum Soldier
Man on a False Flight
Willful Murder
Gateway to Glory
The Storm
Shag
Life of a Country Doctor
Kogarashi Monjiro
The Samurai of Edo
Across the Darkness
Dotanba
Last Days of the Samurai
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Vanished Enlisted Man
My Phoenix
The Demon Comes in Spring
Kunisada Chūji
Six Assassins
Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Greatest Man in the World
No Time for Tears
The Underworld
Fifty-Fifty
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
The Unbalanced Wheel
The End of the Night
The Black Current
The Days of Evil Women
Shadow of a Flower
She Came For Love
Tange Sazen
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
A Man Among Men