Ryūzō Kikushima

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1914-01-28

Deathday 1989-03-18 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As Ryūzō Kikushima, Ryûzô Kikushima

Ryūzō Kikushima

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.

Known For

Writer

A Fistful of Dollars Remake

as Original Film Writer

High and Low

as Original Film Writer

2008
The Last Princess

as Original Story

2007
Tsubaki Sanjuro

as Writer

1996
Last Man Standing

as Original Film Writer

1989
My Phoenix

as Screenplay

1989
1984
The Warrior and the Sorceress

as Original Film Writer

1982
Shi no dangai

as Original Story

1981
Willful Murder

as Screenplay

1978
Shag

as Writer

1977
Ame no meguri ai

as Original Story

1977
Ame no meguri ai

as Screenplay

1976
The Sorrow of Paris

as Screenplay

1974
1973
Stray Dog

as Original Story

1972
1971
Man on a False Flight

as Original Story

1971
Man on a False Flight

as Screenplay

1971
Kaoyaku

as Screenplay

1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Screenplay

1969
Gateway to Glory

as Screenplay

1969
The Magoichi Saga

as Screenplay

1965
Hoodlum Soldier

as Screenplay

1965
Red Beard

as Screenplay

1964
A Fistful of Dollars

as Original Story

1963
High and Low

as Screenplay

1963
Ichi ka bachi ka

as Screenplay

1963
She Came For Love

as Screenplay

1963
Legacy of the 500,000

as Screenplay

1962
Sanjuro

as Screenplay

1962
Yoru no keisha

as Screenplay

1962
1961
Yojimbo

as Screenplay

1961
Kaei

as Screenplay

1960
1960
1960
Afraid to Die

as Writer

1960
1959
1959
1958
The Hidden Fortress

as Screenplay

1958
1958
1957
Throne of Blood

as Screenplay

1957
1957
1957
The Unbalanced Wheel

as Screenplay

1956
The Storm

as Writer

1956
1956
The Underworld

as Screenplay

1956
Dotanba

as Screenplay

1955
The Samurai of Edo

as Screenplay

1955
Vanished Enlisted Man

as Screenplay

1955
Six Assassins

as Writer

1955
1955
1955
1955
1954
1954
Hanran

as Screenplay

1954
Kunisada Chūji

as Writer

1954
The Black Current

as Screenplay

1953
Made in Japan

as Screenplay

1953
1952
Tange Sazen

as Screenplay

1950
Scandal

as Screenplay

1949
Stray Dog

as Writer

Producer

1965
Red Beard

as Producer

1963
High and Low

as Producer

1962
Sanjuro

as Producer

1961
Yojimbo

as Executive Producer

1960

Director

1956
Dotanba

as Director