Name Ryuzo Kikushima Died March 18, 1989, Japan | Role Writer | |
Awards Writers Guild of America The Jean Renoir Award Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year, Edgar Award for Best Foreign Film Movies Yojimbo, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, High and Low, Throne of Blood Similar People Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara | ||
Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三, Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989) is a Japanese writer and film producer who is best known for co-writing the screenplays for several Akira Kurosawa movies, 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.
In 2013, Kikushima and frequent screenwriting collaborators Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni were awarded the Jean Renoir Award by the Writers Guild of America West.
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