Yojimbo
1961
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Ryūzō Kikushima. 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. [2] He also produced several of Kurosawa's ...
Ryûzô Kikushima. Writer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. 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. Born January 28, 1914. Died March 18, 1989 (75)
- Writer, Producer
- January 28, 1914
- Ryûzô Kikushima
- March 18, 1989
Plot. Keiko (called "Mama" by the other characters), a young widow approaching 30, is a hostess at a bar in Ginza. Realizing she is getting older, she decides after talking to her bar manager, Komatsu, that she wants to open her own bar rather than remarrying and dishonoring her late husband to whose memory she is still devoted.
- Ryūzō Kikushima
- Toho
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 ...
Ryuzo Kikushima (菊島 隆三, Kikushima Ryūzō, 1 March 1914 – 18 March 1989 [1]) 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. [2] He also produced several of Kurosawa's early 1960s films. [2]
Sep 3, 2022 · This is the story of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film "Yojimo," written by Kurosawa and Ryūzō Kikushima. "Yojimbo" is easily the most cynical film in Kurosawa's filmography, bitterly taking glee in ...
- Witney Seibold
High and Low (1963) Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low ( Tengoku to jigoku ), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom, Kurosawa ...
