Biography
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.
Wrote 94
2020s
- 2025
2010s
- 2016
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
Tsubaki Sanjuro
Writer
1990s
- 1999
- 1996
1980s
- 1989
The Demon Comes in Spring
Screenplay
- 1987
Princess from the Moon
Writer
- 1986
- 1984
- 1982
Cliff of Death
Original Story
- 1981
Willful Murder
Screenplay
1970s
- 1978
Shag
Writer
- 1977
Ame no meguri ai
Original Story, Screenplay
- 1976
The Last Round
Original Film Writer
The Sorrow of Paris
Screenplay
- 1974
Hashū Hankachō
Writer
- 1973
- 1972
- 1971
Kaoyaku
Screenplay
- 1970
Live Again Tomorrow
Original Story
1960s
- 1969
The Magoichi Saga
Screenplay
Gateway to Glory
Screenplay
Tsugaru zessho
Screenplay
- 1968
- 1967
春日和
Screenplay, Original Story
- 1966
- 1965
You Can If You Try
Adaptation
- 1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Writer
- 1963
Fifty-Fifty
Screenplay
Legacy of the 500,000
Screenplay
- 1962
Yoru no keisha
Screenplay
- 1961
Shadow of a Flower
Screenplay
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Original Story, Adaptation
- 1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Screenplay
12 Ounces to Glory
Adaptation, Original Story
Life of a Country Doctor
Screenplay, Adaptation
Ôana
Screenplay
White Cliffs
Writer
Afraid to Die
Writer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Screenplay
1950s
- 1959
The Three Treasures
Writer
Tsuma no kunshō
Adaptation
Fox and Raccoon
Screenplay
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Writer
- 1958
The Days of Evil Women
Screenplay
The Undefeated Woman
Writer
Fancy Talker
Screenplay
- 1957
The Eleventh Hour
Novel
Last Days of the Samurai
Screenplay
- 1956
Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
Story
Dotanba
Screenplay
The Storm
Writer
The Fighter in the Ring
Original Concept
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Writer
Gendai no yokubô
Screenplay
The Wicked Boy
Screenplay
- 1955
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Screenplay
The Samurai of Edo
Screenplay
Till We Meet Again
Screenplay
No Time for Tears
Writer
The Immortal Pitcher
Screenplay
Vanished Enlisted Man
Screenplay
A Man Among Men
Story
- 1954
Hanran
Screenplay
- 1953
Made in Japan
Screenplay
The End of the Night
Writer
- 1952
Machi no kotengu
Adaptation
Tange Sazen
Screenplay
Daigaku no kotengu
Screenplay
- 1950
1940s
- 1949
Produced 6
1960s
- 1965
- 1963
- 1962
- 1961
- 1960
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Producer
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Producer
Directed 1
1950s
- 1956
Dotanba
Director