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
- Cliff of Death ... (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)
- Live Again Tomorrow ... (Original Story)
1969
- Gateway to Glory ... (Screenplay)
- The Magoichi Saga ... (Screenplay)
- Tsugaru zessho ... (Screenplay)
1968
- Trigger-Happy ... (Writer)
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 ... (Screenplay)
- Legacy of the 500,000 ... (Screenplay)
- She Came For Love ... (Screenplay)
- Fifty-Fifty ... (Screenplay)
- Zero Escape Visibility ... (Writer)
1962
- Sanjuro ... (Screenplay)
- Yoru no keisha ... (Screenplay)
- Shin kitsune to tanuki ... (Screenplay)
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well ... (Writer)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... (Producer)
- Afraid to Die ... (Writer)
- Life of a Country Doctor ... (Screenplay)
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi ... (Producer)
- White Cliffs ... (Writer)
- Ôana ... (Screenplay)
1959
- The Three Treasures ... (Writer)
- The Story of Iron Arm Inao ... (Writer)
- Across the Darkness ... (Writer)
- Fox and Raccoon ... (Screenplay)
1958
- The Hidden Fortress ... (Screenplay)
- The Undefeated Woman ... (Writer)
- The Days of Evil Women ... (Screenplay)
1957
- Throne of Blood ... (Screenplay)
- The Eleventh Hour ... (Novel)
- Last Days of the Samurai ... (Screenplay)
- The Unbalanced Wheel ... (Screenplay)
1956
- Dotanba ... (Director)
- Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō ... (Story)
- The Storm ... (Writer)
- The Underworld ... (Screenplay)
- Will-o'-the-Wisp ... (Writer)
- Gendai no yokubô ... (Screenplay)
- The Wicked Boy ... (Screenplay)
1955
- Till We Meet Again ... (Screenplay)
- A Man Among Men ... (Story)
- Vanished Enlisted Man ... (Screenplay)
- Rikidozan: Man of Fury ... (Screenplay)
- Six Assassins ... (Writer)
- No Time for Tears ... (Writer)
- The Samurai of Edo ... (Screenplay)
- The Immortal Pitcher ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Hanran ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Current ... (Screenplay)
- Kunisada Chūji ... (Writer)
- Hirate Miki the Swordman ... (Screenplay)
1953
- The End of the Night ... (Writer)
- Made in Japan ... (Screenplay)
1952
- Tange Sazen ... (Screenplay)
1950
- Scandal ... (Screenplay)
1949
- Stray Dog ... (Writer)