Ryuzo Kikushima
Birth date
January 28, 1914
Death date
March 18, 1989
Place of birth
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Profession
Writing
Age
75 years
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.
Also known as
Ryûzô Kikushima
