Director

Ryuzo Kikushima

Writing

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 79

TMDB ID: 34373

IMDb ID: nm0452878

Known for: Writing

Born: January 28, 1914

Died: March 18, 1989

Age: 75

Place of birth: Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1949 - 2025

Years active: 77

Average TMDB rating: 7.13

Wikidata: Q11619626

Also known as

Ryûzô Kikushima

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Screenplay (40)Writer (22)Original Story (6)Producer (4)Original Film Writer (3)Story (2)Novel (1)

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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.

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