Ryuzo Kikushima

Ryuzo Kikushima

Writer · Director · Producer

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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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A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars

1964

High and Low

High and Low

1963

Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest

2025

Yojimbo

Yojimbo

1961

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

1996

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

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Dotanba
1956
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