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.

Crew

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Throne of Blood

Producer, Screenplay

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Original Film Writer

Screenplay, Executive Producer

Screenplay, Producer

The Bad Sleep Well

Screenplay, Producer

The Samurai of Edo

Hirate Miki the Swordman

Princess from the Moon

The Last Princess

Across the Darkness

The Hidden Fortress

Tsubaki Sanjuro

Director, Screenplay

The Undefeated Woman

Hoodlum Soldier

Last Days of the Samurai

Shin kitsune to tanuki

The Eleventh Hour

Vanished Enlisted Man

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

Producer, Screenplay

Man on a False Flight

Screenplay, Original Story

Gateway to Glory

The Demon Comes in Spring

The Three Treasures

Kunisada Chūji

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Producer, Screenplay

Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō

Highest 2 Lowest

Original Film Writer

Will-o'-the-Wisp

The Greatest Man in the World

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

No Time for Tears

Life of a Country Doctor

Fumiko's Five Benefactors

Last Man Standing

Original Film Writer

The Magoichi Saga

Ame no meguri ai

Screenplay, Original Story

The Unbalanced Wheel

The Sorrow of Paris

The End of the Night

The Black Current

A Fistful of Dollars Remake

Original Film Writer

The Days of Evil Women

She Came For Love

Legacy of the 500,000

The Story of Iron Arm Inao

A Fistful of Dollars

A Man Among Men

Rikidozan: Man of Fury

Zero Escape Visibility

Screenplay, Original Story

Till We Meet Again

Fox and Raccoon