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Ryūzō Kikushima
Japanese writer and film producer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三, Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989[1]) 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.[citation needed] He also produced several of Kurosawa's early 1960s films.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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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.[2]