Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
88
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-01-28
Day of Death
1989-03-18 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
Ryūzō Kikushima
Ryûzô Kikushima
Ryūzō Kikushima
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.
