Ryuzo Kikushima

Writer · Born 28 January 1914 in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan · Died 18 March 1989 · 9 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

6 of Ryuzo Kikushima’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 6 on Cineasterna. Highest rated available: High and Low (1963) ★ 8.4.

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.

Writing

• High and Low (1963)
• Red Beard (1965)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• Sanjuro (1962)

Producing

• High and Low (1963)
• Red Beard (1965)
• Sanjuro (1962)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
• Stray Dog (1949)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
• Scandal (1950)
• Princess from the Moon (1987)
• The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
• The Three Treasures (1959)
• Afraid to Die (1960)
• Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)
• Tsubaki Sanjuro (2007)
• The Magoichi Saga (1969)