Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto (Japanese 橋本 忍 , born April 18, 1918 in Hyōgo Prefecture ; † July 19, 2018 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese screenwriter , film director and film producer .
life and career
During his military service in 1938, Hashimoto fell ill with tuberculosis and had to spend four years in a sanatorium. During this time he made his first attempts at writing and worked on a script about his military service. After his release from the sanatorium, Hashimoto first became an accountant in a munitions factory, but at the same time made his first contacts in the film industry, including the well-known samurai director Itami Mansaku . In the late 1940s, he adapted a short story that presented different perspectives on an event in the Japanese Middle Ages. Hashimoto presented his work to director Akira Kurosawa , and the two of them continued to write together on the script that formed the basis for Kurosawa's classic film Rashomon - The Pleasure Grove .
Hashimoto wrote a total of eight screenplays for Kurosawa films by 1970, including classic films such as Live Once , The Hidden Fortress and The Seven Samurai . In parallel with his collaboration with Kurosawa, he also worked with other directors such as Tadashi Imai , Mikio Naruse and Masaki Kobayashi . In total, Hashimoto wrote around 80 scripts over a period of more than 60 years, five times for which he was awarded the Japanese Blue Ribbon Award . Hashimoto also tried a total of three times as a film director and film producer. Among other things, he shot the war drama Watashi wa kai ni naritai in 1959, based on his own script . Hashimoto wrote screenplays until he was about 95 years old before suffering a stroke .
Hashimoto published in 2006 his autobiography, also in English under the title Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I appeared. In 2013 he was honored with the Jean Renoir Award from the Writers Guild of America . He died of pneumonia in Tokyo three months after his 100th birthday .
Filmography (selection)
As screenwriter (selection)
- 1950: Rashomon - The Pleasure Grove (Rashōmon)
- 1952: Really living once (Ikiru)
- 1954: The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
- 1955: Balance of a life (Ikimono no Kiroku)
- 1957: The castle in the cobweb forest (Kumonosu-jō)
- 1958: The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin)
- 1960: Banzai-Banzai, the pilots of the devil (Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi)
- 1962: Harakiri (Seppuku)
- 1963: The Victorious Okinawa Eagles (Taiheiyo no tsubasa)
- 1965: The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tōge)
- 1966: The great white tower (Shiroi Kyotô)
- 1969: The Samurai's Banner (Fûrin kazan)
- 1970: Dodeskaden - people on the sidelines (Dodeskaden)
- 1973: The fall of Japan (Nippon Chimbotsu)
- 1977: The Village of Eight Tombstones (Yatsuhaka-mura)
- 1986: Tabiji mura de ichiban no kubitsurinoki
- 2013: Jôiuchi: hairyô zuma shimatsu (TV movie)
As a director
- 1959: Watashi wa kai ni naritai
- 1961: Minami no kaze to nami
- 1982: Maboroshi no mizuumi
As a film producer
- 1974: Suna no utsuwa
- 1977: Hakkodasan
- 1982: Maboroshi no mizuumi
Web links
- Shinobu Hashimoto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Shinobu Hashimoto, Writer of Towering Kurosawa Films, Is Dead at 100 . ( nytimes.com [accessed July 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter on Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon,' Dies at 100 . In: The Hollywood Reporter . ( hollywoodreporter.com [accessed July 21, 2018]).
- ^ The Jean Renoir Award. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Film author Shinobu Hashimoto is dead . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 20, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 21, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hashimoto, Shinobu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 橋本 忍 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese screenwriter, film director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hyogo Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th July 2018 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |