Ryûzô Kikushima

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Biography

Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三 Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989) was a Japanese writer 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.

Timeline

2025

  • Poster for Highest 2 Lowest

    Original Film Writer

2016

  • Poster for 黒の斜面

    Original Story

2008

  • Poster for The Last Princess

    Original Story

2007

  • Poster for Tsubaki Sanjuro

    Writer

1996

  • Poster for Last Man Standing

    Original Film Writer

1989

  • Poster for The Demon Comes in Spring

    Screenplay

  • Poster for My Phoenix

    Screenplay

1987

  • Poster for Princess from the Moon

    Writer

1986

  • Poster for The Greatest Man in the World

    Screenplay

1984

  • Poster for The Warrior and the Sorceress

    Original Film Writer

1982

  • Poster for Cliff of Death

    Original Story

1981

  • Poster for Willful Murder

    Screenplay

1978

  • Poster for Shag

    Writer

1977

  • Poster for Ame no meguri ai

    Screenplay

1976

  • Poster for The Sorrow of Paris

    Screenplay

1973

  • Poster for Stray Dog

    Original Story

1971

1970

  • Poster for Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Live Again Tomorrow

    Original Story

1969

  • Poster for Tsugaru zessho

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Gateway to Glory

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Magoichi Saga

    Screenplay

1968

  • Poster for Trigger-Happy

    Writer

1967

  • Poster for 春日和

    Original Story

1965

  • Poster for Red Beard

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hoodlum Soldier

    Screenplay

  • Poster for You Can If You Try

    Adaptation

1964

  • Poster for Fumiko's Five Benefactors

    Writer

  • Poster for The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

    Writer

  • Poster for A Fistful of Dollars

    Original Story

1963

  • Poster for High and Low

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Legacy of the 500,000

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Fifty-Fifty

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Zero Escape Visibility

    Writer

  • Poster for She Came For Love

    Screenplay

1962

  • Poster for Sanjuro

    Producer

  • Poster for Yoru no keisha

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Shin kitsune to tanuki

    Screenplay

1961

  • Poster for Yojimbo

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Age of Lawless Moneymaking

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Shadow of a Flower

    Screenplay

1960

  • Poster for When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Afraid to Die

    Writer

  • Poster for White Cliffs

    Writer

  • Poster for Ôana

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Life of a Country Doctor

    Adaptation

  • Poster for 12 Ounces to Glory

    Original Story

  • Poster for The Bad Sleep Well

    Writer

  • Poster for Chikuhō no kodomotachi

    Screenplay

1959

  • Poster for The Story of Iron Arm Inao

    Writer

  • Poster for Fox and Raccoon

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Three Treasures

    Writer

  • Poster for Across the Darkness

    Writer

1958

  • Poster for The Gion Tempest

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Undefeated Woman

    Writer

  • Poster for The Days of Evil Women

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Hidden Fortress

    Screenplay

1957

  • Poster for Throne of Blood

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Last Days of the Samurai

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Eleventh Hour

    Novel

  • Poster for The Unbalanced Wheel

    Screenplay

1956

  • Poster for The Underworld

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Wicked Boy

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Gendai no yokubô

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Will-o'-the-Wisp

    Writer

  • Poster for The Fighter in the Ring

    Original Concept

  • Poster for The Storm

    Writer

  • Poster for Dotanba

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō

    Story

1955

  • Poster for A Man Among Men

    Story

  • Poster for Vanished Enlisted Man

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Immortal Pitcher

    Screenplay

  • Poster for No Time for Tears

    Writer

  • Poster for Till We Meet Again

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Six Assassins

    Writer

  • Poster for The Samurai of Edo

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Rikidozan: Man of Fury

    Screenplay

1954

  • Poster for Hanran

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Kunisada Chūji

    Writer

  • Poster for The Black Current

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hirate Miki the Swordman

    Screenplay

1953

  • Poster for The End of the Night

    Writer

  • Poster for Made in Japan

    Screenplay

1952

  • Poster for Daigaku no kotengu

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tange Sazen

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Machi no kotengu

    Adaptation

1950

  • Poster for Scandal

    Screenplay

1949

  • Poster for Stray Dog

    Writer

Year unknown

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