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)

1999

Inferno ... (Original Film Writer)

1996

Last Man Standing ... (Original Film Writer)

1989

The Demon Comes in Spring ... (Screenplay)
My Phoenix ... (Screenplay)

1982

Cliff of Death ... (Original Story)

1981

Willful Murder ... (Screenplay)

1978

Shag ... (Writer)

1977

Ame no meguri ai ... (Original Story)

1976

The Last Round ... (Original Film Writer)
The Sorrow of Paris ... (Screenplay)

1974

Hashū Hankachō ... (Writer)

1973

Stray Dog ... (Original Story)

1972

Kogarashi Monjiro ... (Writer)

1971

Kaoyaku ... (Screenplay)
Man on a False Flight ... (Original Story)

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Screenplay)
Live Again Tomorrow ... (Original Story)

1969

The Magoichi Saga ... (Screenplay)
Gateway to Glory ... (Screenplay)
Tsugaru zessho ... (Screenplay)

1968

Trigger-Happy ... (Writer)

1967

春日和 ... (Screenplay)

1966

Django ... (Original Film Writer)

1965

Red Beard ... (Producer)
You Can If You Try ... (Adaptation)
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)
She Came For Love ... (Screenplay)
Zero Escape Visibility ... (Writer)
Fifty-Fifty ... (Screenplay)

1962

Sanjuro ... (Screenplay)
Shin kitsune to tanuki ... (Screenplay)
Yoru no keisha ... (Screenplay)

1961

Yojimbo ... (Screenplay)
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking ... (Original Story)
Shadow of a Flower ... (Screenplay)

1960

The Bad Sleep Well ... (Writer)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... (Producer)
12 Ounces to Glory ... (Adaptation)
Afraid to Die ... (Writer)
Life of a Country Doctor ... (Screenplay)
White Cliffs ... (Writer)
Chikuhō no kodomotachi ... (Producer)
Ôana ... (Screenplay)

1959

The Three Treasures ... (Writer)
Fox and Raccoon ... (Screenplay)
The Story of Iron Arm Inao ... (Writer)
Across the Darkness ... (Writer)

1958

The Hidden Fortress ... (Screenplay)
Fancy Talker ... (Screenplay)
The Undefeated Woman ... (Writer)
The Days of Evil Women ... (Screenplay)
The Gion Tempest ... (Screenplay)

1957

Throne of Blood ... (Screenplay)
The Eleventh Hour ... (Novel)
The Unbalanced Wheel ... (Screenplay)
Last Days of the Samurai ... (Screenplay)

1956

Gendai no yokubô ... (Screenplay)
The Underworld ... (Screenplay)
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō ... (Story)
The Fighter in the Ring ... (Original Concept)
The Storm ... (Writer)
The Wicked Boy ... (Screenplay)
Dotanba ... (Director)
Will-o'-the-Wisp ... (Writer)

1955

Till We Meet Again ... (Screenplay)
Vanished Enlisted Man ... (Screenplay)
The Immortal Pitcher ... (Screenplay)
A Man Among Men ... (Story)
No Time for Tears ... (Writer)
The Samurai of Edo ... (Screenplay)
Rikidozan: Man of Fury ... (Screenplay)
Six Assassins ... (Writer)

1954

The Black Current ... (Screenplay)
Hanran ... (Screenplay)
Kunisada Chūji ... (Writer)
Hirate Miki the Swordman ... (Screenplay)

1953

Made in Japan ... (Screenplay)
The End of the Night ... (Writer)

1952

Machi no kotengu ... (Adaptation)
Daigaku no kotengu ... (Screenplay)
Tange Sazen ... (Screenplay)

1950

Scandal ... (Screenplay)

1949

Stray Dog ... (Writer)