Shinobu Hashimoto

Hashimoto Shinobu

  • Name: Hashimoto Shinobu
  • Native name: 橋本忍
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 18, 1918
  • Died: July 19, 2018
Hashimoto Shinobu was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai".

Hashimoto was born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan on 18 April 1918. In 1938 he enlisted in the army, but became ill with tuberculosis while still training and spent four years in a veterans' sanitarium. While hospitalized, another patient gave Hashimoto a film magazine. The magazine sparked his interest in screenwriting and he began a screenplay about his army experience, spending three years on the project.

Hashimoto was a frequent collaborator with Kurosawa Akira, from 1950 to 1970 writing eight screenplays Kurosawa directed. He often worked with Oguni Hideo, Kikushima Ryūzō as well as Kurosawa himself on the scripts for those projects. Hashimoto won numerous awards for his writing, including a succession of Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Hashimoto wrote more than eighty screenplays, including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai (1950), Throne of Blood (a 1957 adaptation of Macbeth set in Japan), and The Hidden Fortress (1958). He also directed three films.

Achieving international acclaim, Hashimoto's scripts inspired notable films abroad, including The Magnificent Seven (1960 and then remade again in 2016), a remake of Seven Samurai, and Star Wars (1977), which George Lucas has described as inspired by The Hidden Fortress.

In 2006, he authored a memoir entitled Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I. In 2008, Hashimoto wrote a screenplay for I Want to Be a Shellfish, a second full-length film adaptation of the post-World War II-based television series he wrote for Tokyo Broadcasting System Television in 1958.

Hashimoto is credited in the making of at least 85 films.

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Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
2008 I Want to Be a Shellfish
Movie
7.7
2008 The Last Princess
Movie
6.9
1986 Ai no Kagero
Movie
2.0
1983 Matsumoto Seicho no Zero no Shoten
Special
0.0
1977 Village of Eight Gravestones
Movie
8.0
1977 Mount Hakkoda
Movie
7.2
1976 Human Revolution 2
Movie
0.0
1974 The Castle of Sand
Movie
7.7
1973 Submersion of Japan
Movie
7.3
1973 Human Revolution
Movie
0.0
1970 Dodesukaden
Movie
7.3
1970 The Shadow Within
Movie
6.8
1969 Hitokiri
Movie
7.5
1969 Samurai Banners
Movie
7.5
1968 Judge and Jeopardy
Movie
0.0
1967 Japan's Longest Day
Movie
7.5
1967 Samurai Rebellion
Movie
8.0
1966 The Great White Tower
Movie
7.5
1966 The Sword of Doom
Movie
7.8
1965 Flag in the Mist
Movie
7.7
1965 Samurai Assassin
Movie
7.7
1964 Revenge
Movie
7.0
1963 Shozuka no Baasan
Special
0.0
1963 Shiro to Kuro
Movie
0.0
1962 Harakiri
Movie
8.3
1961 Zero Focus
Movie
7.4
1960 The Bad Sleep Well
Movie
7.8
1960 Irohanihoheto
Movie
2.0
1960 Knock Down
Movie
7.0
1959 The Murderer Must Die
Movie
0.0
1959 Kotan no Kuchibue
Movie
6.5
1958 The Hidden Fortress
Movie
7.8
1958 Iwashigumo
Movie
7.0
1958 Yatsu ga Satsujinsha da
Movie
0.0
1958 Night Drum
Movie
7.0
1958 Stakeout
Movie
6.0
1957 They Are Buried Alive
Movie
0.0
1957 Throne of Blood
Movie
7.9
1956 Darkness in the Noon
Movie
1.0
1955 I Live in Fear
Movie
7.3
1955 Striving to Live
Movie
0.0
1954 Seven Samurai
Movie
8.6
1954 Jirocho Sangokushi: Daikyubu ~ Kojin Yama
Movie
0.0
1954 Farewell Rabaul
Movie
5.6
1953 Eagle of the Pacific
Movie
6.9
1952 Ikiru
Movie
8.2
1950 Rashomon
Movie
8.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
1982 Maboroshi No Mizumi
Movie
5.5
1959 I Want to Be a Shellfish
Movie
0.0
Cinematography
Year Title Type Rating
1980 Kagemusha
Movie
7.7
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  • First Name: Shinobu
  • Family Name: Hashimoto
  • Native name: 橋本忍
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: April 18, 1918
  • Died: July 19, 2018

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