Ryuzo Kikushima
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.
On the crew 96
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Kogarashi Monjiro
1972
High and Low
1963
Last Man Standing
1996
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Red Beard
1965
Yojimbo
1961
Throne of Blood
1957
The Hidden Fortress
1958
Inferno
1999
Sanjuro
1962
Django
1966
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Stray Dog
1949
The Warrior and the Sorceress
1984
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964
Hashū Hankachō
1974
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Scandal
1950
The Three Treasures
1959
The Last Round
1976
12 Ounces to Glory
1960
Kaoyaku
1971
Afraid to Die
1960
Princess from the Moon
1987
Till We Meet Again
1955
Machi no kotengu
1952
The Last Princess
2008
Vanished Enlisted Man
1955
Fox and Raccoon
1959
Gendai no yokubô
1956
The Magoichi Saga
1969
You Can If You Try
1965
Fancy Talker
1958
Legacy of the 500,000
1963
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
1961
The Underworld
1956
Willful Murder
1981
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
1956
The Fighter in the Ring
1956
The Immortal Pitcher
1955
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1959
Tsubaki Sanjuro
2007
Daigaku no kotengu
1952
The Black Current
1954
Shag
1978
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
The Undefeated Woman
1958
The Eleventh Hour
1957
Made in Japan
1953
The Demon Comes in Spring
1989
A Man Among Men
1955
Trigger-Happy
1968
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
The End of the Night
1953
The Storm
1956
No Time for Tears
1955
Hanran
1954
Gateway to Glory
1969
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962
White Cliffs
1960
黒の斜面
2016
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
1964
The Wicked Boy
1956
The Sorrow of Paris
1976
My Phoenix
1989
Dotanba
1956
The Days of Evil Women
1958
Tange Sazen
1952
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957
Stray Dog
1973
Shadow of a Flower
1961
Yoru no keisha
1962
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
Ame no meguri ai
1977
Cliff of Death
1982
Man on a False Flight
1971
A Fistful of Dollars Remake
Last Days of the Samurai
1957
The Gion Tempest
1958
Live Again Tomorrow
1970
She Came For Love
1963
Zero Escape Visibility
1963
Kunisada Chūji
1954
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956
The Samurai of Edo
1955
Across the Darkness
1959
The Greatest Man in the World
1986
Tsugaru zessho
1969
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1955
春日和
1967
Hirate Miki the Swordman
1954
Six Assassins
1955
Fifty-Fifty
1963
Ôana
1960