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Ryuzo Kikushima
Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born January 28, 1914Died March 18, 1989 (75 years)
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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Ryuzo Kikushima Filmography
| 2025 | Highest 2 Lowest · as Original Film Writer |
| 2007 | |
| 1996 | Last Man Standing · as Original Film Writer |
| 1987 | |
| 1986 | Kokushi muso · as Screenplay |
| 1984 | The Warrior and the Sorceress · as Original Film Writer |
| 1981 | Willful Murder · as Screenplay |
| 1971 | Kaoyaku · as Screenplay |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Shirikurae Magoichi · as Screenplay |
| 1969 | Gateway to Glory · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | Red Beard · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | Hoodlum Soldier · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | 500,000 · as Screenplay |
| 1963 | High and Low · as Screenplay |
| 1962 | Sanjuro · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | Yojimbo · as Screenplay |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · as Screenplay |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | The Hidden Fortress · as Screenplay |
| 1957 | They Are Buried Alive · as Novel |
| 1957 | Throne of Blood · as Screenplay |
| 1956 | The Underworld · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | Edo issun no mushi · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Till We Meet Again · as Screenplay |
| 1955 | Soman kokkyô 2-gô sakusen: Kieta chûtai · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Jigoku no kengô Hirate Miki · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Kuroi ushio · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | |
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| 1965 | |
| 1963 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1961 | Yojimbo · as Executive Producer |
| 1960 |
| 2016 | The Black Slope · as Original Story |
| 2008 | Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess · as Original Story |
| 1985 | Runaway Train · as Story |
| 1973 | Stray Dog · as Original Story |
| 1968 | The Last Day of Hsianyang · as Original Screenplay |
| 1966 | |
| 1964 | A Fistful of Dollars · as Original Story |
| 1956 | Wakanohana monogatari dohyou no oni · as Story |