Ryuzo Kikushima
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.
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Movies (94)
Del cielo al infierno
2025 · Original Film Writer
黒の斜面
2016 · Original Story
The Last Princess
2008 · Original Story
Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007 · Writer
Van Damme's Inferno
1999 · Original Film Writer
El último hombre
1996 · Original Film Writer
My Phoenix
1989 · Screenplay
The Demon Comes in Spring
1989 · Screenplay
Princess from the Moon
1987 · Writer
The Greatest Man in the World
1986 · Screenplay
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984 · Original Film Writer
Cliff of Death
1982 · Original Story
Willful Murder
1981 · Screenplay
Shag
1978 · Writer
Ame no meguri ai
1977 · Original Story, Screenplay
The Last Round
1976 · Original Film Writer
The Sorrow of Paris
1976 · Screenplay
Stray Dog
1973 · Original Story
Man on a False Flight
1971 · Original Story, Screenplay
Kaoyaku
1971 · Screenplay
Live Again Tomorrow
1970 · Original Story
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Screenplay
The Magoichi Saga
1969 · Screenplay
Gateway to Glory
1969 · Screenplay
Tsugaru zessho
1969 · Screenplay
Trigger-Happy
1968 · Writer
春日和
1967 · Screenplay, Original Story
Django
1966 · Original Film Writer
You Can If You Try
1965 · Adaptation
Hoodlum Soldier
1965 · Screenplay
Red Beard
1965 · Producer, Screenplay
A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Original Story
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964 · Writer
She Came For Love
1963 · Screenplay
Zero Escape Visibility
1963 · Writer
Fifty-Fifty
1963 · Screenplay
Legacy of the 500,000
1963 · Screenplay
High and Low
1963 · Screenplay, Producer
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962 · Screenplay
Yoru no keisha
1962 · Screenplay
Sanjuro
1962 · Screenplay, Producer
Shadow of a Flower
1961 · Screenplay
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
1961 · Original Story, Adaptation
Yojimbo
1961 · Executive Producer, Screenplay
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960 · Producer, Screenplay
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Writer
12 Ounces to Glory
1960 · Adaptation, Original Story
Life of a Country Doctor
1960 · Screenplay, Adaptation
Ôana
1960 · Screenplay
White Cliffs
1960 · Writer
Afraid to Die
1960 · Writer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960 · Producer, Screenplay
Across the Darkness
1959 · Writer
The Three Treasures
1959 · Writer
Tsuma no kunshō
1959 · Adaptation
Fox and Raccoon
1959 · Screenplay
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1959 · Writer
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Screenplay
The Days of Evil Women
1958 · Screenplay
The Undefeated Woman
1958 · Writer
The Gion Tempest
1958 · Screenplay
Fancy Talker
1958 · Screenplay
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957 · Screenplay
The Eleventh Hour
1957 · Novel
Last Days of the Samurai
1957 · Screenplay
Throne of Blood
1957 · Screenplay
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
1956 · Story
Dotanba
1956 · Director, Screenplay
The Storm
1956 · Writer
The Fighter in the Ring
1956 · Original Concept
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956 · Writer
Gendai no yokubô
1956 · Screenplay
The Wicked Boy
1956 · Screenplay
The Underworld
1956 · Screenplay
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1955 · Screenplay
The Samurai of Edo
1955 · Screenplay
Six Assassins
1955 · Writer
Till We Meet Again
1955 · Screenplay
No Time for Tears
1955 · Writer
The Immortal Pitcher
1955 · Screenplay
Vanished Enlisted Man
1955 · Screenplay
A Man Among Men
1955 · Story
Hirate Miki the Swordman
1954 · Screenplay
The Black Current
1954 · Screenplay
Kunisada Chūji
1954 · Writer
Hanran
1954 · Screenplay
Made in Japan
1953 · Screenplay
The End of the Night
1953 · Writer
Machi no kotengu
1952 · Adaptation
Tange Sazen
1952 · Screenplay
Daigaku no kotengu
1952 · Screenplay
Scandal
1950 · Screenplay
Stray Dog
1949 · Writer
A Fistful of Dollars Remake
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