Shinobu Hashimoto

Shinobu Hashimoto (, Hashimoto Shinobu; 18 April 1918 – 19 July 2018) was a Japanese screenwriter, director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for critically acclaimed films such as Rashomon and Seven Samurai, as well as the Samurai films Harakiri and Hitokiri (released in the US as Tenchu!) (1969).

Early life Shinobu Hashimoto was born in Hyōgo Prefecture 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. from 1950 to 1970 writing eight screenplays Kurosawa directed. He often worked with Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima as well as Kurosawa himself on the scripts for those projects. Hashimoto wrote more than eighty screenplays, including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai (1950), Throne of Blood (a 1957 adaptation of Macbeth set in Japan),

Later life and death Hashimoto turned 100 in April 2018. He died in Tokyo on 19 July 2018 at the age of 100.

Awards and honors 1950: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay for Rashomon 1956: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Mahiru no ankoku 1956: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Mahiru no ankoku 1958: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Summer Clouds and Stakeout 1958: Kinema Junpo's Best Screenwriter Award for The Hidden Fortress 1960: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Black Art Book (:ja:黒い画集) 1962: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay for Harakiri 1974: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Castle of Sand

2015: Mainichi Film Award Special Prize for screenwriting

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