Shinobu Hashimoto 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, 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. 

April 18th, 1918 in Kanzaki District, Hy?go  /  Died:   Jul 19th, 2018 - Pneumonia