Ryuzo Kikushima

Japanese screenwriter and film producer who is best known for cowriting the screenplays for several Akira Kurosawa films including Throne of Blood The Hidden Fortress Yojimbo and High and Low He also produced several of Kurosawas early 1960s films In addition to his work with Kurosawa screenplays he wrote or cowrote include Tora Tora Tora Hiroshi Inagakis Arashi and The Birth of Japan and Mikio Naruses When a Woman Ascends the Stairs on which he also served as producer