Ryuzo Kikushima
Born: 1914-01-28 in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1989-03-18
Known For: Writing
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.
Filmography
2025
- Highest 2 Lowest ... (Original Film Writer)
2016
- 黒の斜面 ... (Original Story)
2008
- The Last Princess ... (Original Story)
2007
- Tsubaki Sanjuro ... (Writer)
1996
- Last Man Standing ... (Original Film Writer)
1989
- The Demon Comes in Spring ... (Screenplay)
- My Phoenix ... (Screenplay)
1987
- Princess from the Moon ... (Writer)
1986
- The Greatest Man in the World ... (Screenplay)
1984
- The Warrior and the Sorceress ... (Original Film Writer)
1982
- Shi no dangai ... (Original Story)
1981
- Willful Murder ... (Screenplay)
1978
- Shag ... (Writer)
1977
- Ame no meguri ai ... (Original Story)
1976
- The Sorrow of Paris ... (Screenplay)
1974
- Hashū Hankachō ... (Writer)
1973
- Stray Dog ... (Original Story)
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro ... (Writer)
1971
- Man on a False Flight ... (Original Story)
- Kaoyaku ... (Screenplay)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Screenplay)
1969
- The Magoichi Saga ... (Screenplay)
- Gateway to Glory ... (Screenplay)
- Tsugaru zessho ... (Screenplay)
1967
- 春日和 ... (Screenplay)
1965
- Red Beard ... (Producer)
- Hoodlum Soldier ... (Screenplay)
1964
- A Fistful of Dollars ... (Original Story)
- The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers ... (Writer)
- Fumiko's Five Benefactors ... (Writer)
1963
- High and Low ... (Producer)
- Legacy of the 500,000 ... (Screenplay)
- Fifty-Fifty ... (Screenplay)
- She Came For Love ... (Screenplay)
- Zero Escape Visibility ... (Writer)
1962
- Sanjuro ... (Screenplay)
- Shin kitsune to tanuki ... (Screenplay)
- Yoru no keisha ... (Screenplay)
1960
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... (Producer)
- The Bad Sleep Well ... (Writer)
- Afraid to Die ... (Writer)
- White Cliffs ... (Writer)
- Life of a Country Doctor ... (Screenplay)
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi ... (Producer)
- Ôana ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Fox and Raccoon ... (Screenplay)
- The Three Treasures ... (Writer)
- Across the Darkness ... (Writer)
- The Story of Iron Arm Inao ... (Writer)
1958
- The Hidden Fortress ... (Screenplay)
- The Days of Evil Women ... (Screenplay)
- The Undefeated Woman ... (Writer)
1957
- Throne of Blood ... (Screenplay)
- The Eleventh Hour ... (Novel)
- Last Days of the Samurai ... (Screenplay)
- The Unbalanced Wheel ... (Screenplay)
1956
- The Underworld ... (Screenplay)
- Dotanba ... (Director)
- The Storm ... (Writer)
- Will-o'-the-Wisp ... (Writer)
- Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō ... (Story)
1955
- Six Assassins ... (Writer)
- Till We Meet Again ... (Screenplay)
- No Time for Tears ... (Writer)
- The Samurai of Edo ... (Screenplay)
- Vanished Enlisted Man ... (Screenplay)
- A Man Among Men ... (Story)
- Rikidozan: Man of Fury ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Kunisada Chūji ... (Writer)
- Hirate Miki the Swordman ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Current ... (Screenplay)
- Hanran ... (Screenplay)
1953
- The End of the Night ... (Writer)
- Made in Japan ... (Screenplay)
1952
- Tange Sazen ... (Screenplay)
1950
- Scandal ... (Screenplay)
1949
- Stray Dog ... (Writer)