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Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三, Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989) was a Japanese writer 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.
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.
- Keiji Matsuzaki
- Eijirō Hisaita
- Keinosuke Uekusa
- Senkichi Taniguchi
- Ryūzō Kikushima
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Hideo Oguni
- Masato IDE
- Yuri Nagibin
- Ishirō Honda
1 screenplay for Kurosawa (uncredited), 1946 Keiji Matsuzaki (1905-1974) was one of Kurosawa’s early producers. He produced the director’s debut film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), as well as co-producing the collaborative Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946), which Kurosawa begrudgingly worked on for Toho. Matsuzaki similarly handled production for Kurosawa’s ...
4 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1946-1963 Playwright-turned-screenwriter Eijirō Hisaita (1898-1976) was Kurosawa’s first official screenwriting partner. The two created No Regrets for Our Youth together with Keiji Matsuzaki as described above, and later Hisaita also penned The Idiot (1951) with Kurosawa, as well as being part of a larger screenwriting ...
2 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1947-1948 Of the hundreds of people that Kurosawa worked with during his career, playwright and novelist Keinosuke Uekusa(1910-1993) was his very first professional acquaintance. Not that he probably realised it when they first got together. The two met at around the age of six. With only 18 days separating the two men’s...
1 screenplay for Kurosawa, 1949 Film director and screenwriter Senkichi Taniguchi (1912-2007) was another good friend of Kurosawa’s. The two met in their assistant director days in the mid-1930s, and during a six-year time period between 1947 and 1953 no fewer than eight films were released where the two shared credits. Five of those were directed ...
9 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1949-1969 Ryūzō Kikushima (1914-1989) is something of an enigma. In the late 1940s Kikushima was a young writer who had never written a screenplay before, yet somehow his path crossed with Kurosawa’s, who recognised something in him. The director decided to bring the writer in for a film that he was developing based on a...
8 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1950-1970 Of the ten screenwriters that Kurosawa worked with, Shinobu Hashimoto (born 1918) is the only one still alive. The now 97-year-old screenwriter’s book Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and Iwas published in English about a month ago, and it is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in Kurosawa’s wor...
12 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1952-1985 Hideo Oguni (1904-1996) was the screenwriter that Kurosawa most often worked with, and also one that was there throughout almost all of his career. A cursory look at Kurosawa’s film credits would suggest that the first time that Kurosawa and Oguni got together was on Ikiru(1952), but in fact their collaboratio...
3 screenplays for Kurosawa, 1965-1985 Screenwriter Masato Ide (1922-1989) was first brought in for Red Beard (1965), and he can be called the final addition to Kurosawa’s regular screenwriting team. When he joined Kurosawa, Kikushima and Oguni, Ide already had almost 15 years of experience as a screenwriter, during which period he had written close...
1 screenplay for Kurosawa, 1975 Yuri Nagibin (1920-1994) was a Russian screenwriter, novelist and journalist who worked with Kurosawa on the screenplay for the director’s Soviet financed 1975 film Dersu Uzala. In her memoir, Teruyo Nogami describes how this wasn’t an entirely straightforward process: Nagibin originally insisted on a more dramatic a...
2 screenplays for Kurosawa (uncredited & uncertain), 1990-1993 Ishirō Honda (1911-1993) is best known as the director of several popular monster, special effects and war films, most famously in the Godzilla film series. He was also Kurosawa’s lifelong friend, with the two having first met during their assistant director days in the 1930s. Honda wor...
Ryûzô Kikushima was born on 28 January 1914 in Japan. He was a writer and producer, known for High and Low (1963), Yojimbo (1961) and The Hidden Fortress (1958). He died on 18 March 1989 in Japan.
- Writer, Producer
- January 28, 1914
- Ryûzô Kikushima
- March 18, 1989
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 … more. More details at TMDb. Remove Ads. Films produced by Ryūzō Kikushima.
Ryūzō Kikushima. 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.
Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三 Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989) was a Japanese writer 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.
