🎬Ryuzo 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. 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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Highest 2 Lowest (2025)	Director / Writer		7.5
2	Last Man Standing (1996)	Director / Writer		6.8
3	The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)	Director / Writer		4
4	Kaoyaku (1971)	Director / Writer		5
5	Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)	Director / Writer		7
6	Red Beard (1965)	Director / Writer		8.7
7	A Fistful of Dollars (1964)	Director / Writer		7.6
8	High and Low (1963)	Director / Writer		7.8
9	Legacy of the 500,000 (1963)	Director / Writer	-	-
10	Sanjuro (1962)	Director / Writer		7.6
11	Yojimbo (1961)	Director / Writer		7.7
12	The Bad Sleep Well (1960)	Director / Writer		7
13	The Hidden Fortress (1958)	Director / Writer		7.4
14	Throne of Blood (1957)	Director / Writer		6.9
15	Scandal (1950)	Director / Writer		8
16	Stray Dog (1949)	Director / Writer		7.6