
Ryuzo Kikushima
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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.
Known for
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High and Low (1963)
Screenplay

Yojimbo (1961)
Screenplay

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Screenplay

Throne of Blood (1957)
Screenplay

Red Beard (1965)
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The Hidden Fortress (1958)
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Sanjuro (1962)
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Scandal (1950)
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
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Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
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Gateway to Glory (1969)
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Willful Murder (1981)
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Till We Meet Again (1955)
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Man on a False Flight (1971)
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She Came For Love (1963)
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Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)
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The Sorrow of Paris (1976)
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Hanran (1954)
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Shin kitsune to tanuki (1962)
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)
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Dotanba (1956)
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Shadow of a Flower (1961)
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Last Days of the Samurai (1957)
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The Black Current (1954)
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春日和 (1967)
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The Magoichi Saga (1969)
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Ame no meguri ai (1977)
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The Samurai of Edo (1955)
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Fifty-Fifty (1963)
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Life of a Country Doctor (1960)
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The Greatest Man in the World (1986)
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Yoru no keisha (1962)
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The Days of Evil Women (1958)
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Fox and Raccoon (1959)
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Made in Japan (1953)
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Vanished Enlisted Man (1955)
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The Underworld (1956)
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The Demon Comes in Spring (1989)
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Hirate Miki the Swordman (1954)
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Tange Sazen (1952)
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Kaoyaku (1971)
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The Wicked Boy (1956)
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury (1955)
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Gendai no yokubô (1956)
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The Unbalanced Wheel (1957)
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Tsugaru zessho (1969)
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My Phoenix (1989)
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The Immortal Pitcher (1955)
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Ôana (1960)
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