Shinobu Hashimoto

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Shinobu Hashimoto (Template:Langx, 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 (1962) and Hitokiri (released in the US as Tenchu!) (1969).<ref name="GulfNews.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Bergan 2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Schilling Schilling 2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

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.<ref name=":1"/>

Career

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.<ref name=":1"/>

Hashimoto was a frequent collaborator with Akira Kurosawa,<ref name="NYT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> from 1950 to 1970 writing eight screenplays Kurosawa directed.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> He often worked with Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima as well as Kurosawa himself on the scripts for those projects.<ref name=":1"/> Hashimoto won numerous awards for his writing, including a succession of Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name="AllCinemaAwards">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hashimoto wrote more than eighty screenplays,<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai (1950), Throne of Blood (a 1957 adaptation of Macbeth set in Japan),<ref name=":1" /> and The Hidden Fortress (1958). He also directed three films.<ref name=":0"/>

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.<ref name=":1" />

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Later life and death

Hashimoto turned 100 in April 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He died in Tokyo on 19 July 2018 at the age of 100.<ref name=":0" /> In a tribute article for TIME magazine, film director Antoine Fuqua expressed his respect for Hashimoto as a screenwriter stating: "(Hashimoto's) … working with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni, was so beautiful and poetic and powerful and heartbreaking. It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys".<ref>TIME magazine obit notice by Antoine Fuqua. August 6, 2018. Page 16.</ref>

Awards and honors

• 1950: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay for Rashomon<ref name="AllCinemaAwards"/>
• 1952: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Ikiru<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1956: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Mahiru no ankoku<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1956: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Mahiru no ankoku<ref name="AllCinemaAwards"/>
• 1958: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Summer Clouds, Stakeout and Night Drum<ref name="Mainichi58">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1958: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Summer Clouds and Stakeout<ref name="cinemahochi1958">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1958: Kinema Junpo's Best Screenwriter Award for The Hidden Fortress<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1960: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Black Art Book (ja:黒い画集)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1962: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay for Harakiri<ref name="AllCinemaAwards" />
• 1966: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Shiroi Kyotō<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1974: Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for Castle of Sand<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2015: Mainichi Film Award Special Prize for screenwriting<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

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