Name Shinobu Hashimoto | Role Screenwriter | |
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Born April 18, 1918 (age 106) ( 1918-04-18 ) Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Children Aya Hashimoto, Shingo Hashimoto Awards Writers Guild of America The Jean Renoir Award Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year Movies Seven Samurai, Rashomon, To Live, Castle of Sand, Throne of Blood Similar People Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Toshiro Mifune | ||
Shinobu Hashimoto (Japanese: 橋本 忍, Hashimoto Shinobu) (born 18 April 1918) is a Japanese screenwriter, director, producer, and was a frequent collaborator with Akira Kurosawa.
He has won some 16 awards for his writing, including a succession of Blue Ribbon Awards, particularly in the 1960s.
In 2008, Hashimoto's screenplay for I Want to Be a Shellfish (Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai), a post-World War II war crimes trial drama based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and made into a film that same year, is being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa. Yukie Nakama and Masahiro Nakai are the stars, and the music is by Joe Hisaishi.
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