- Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto ( _ja. 橋本 忍, "Hashimoto Shinobu") (born
April 18 ,1918 ) is aJapan esescreenwriter , director, producer, and was a frequent collaborator withAkira 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 " ("Watashi wa Kani ni Naritai"), a post-WW2 war crimes trial drama based on the 1959Tetsutaro Kato novel and made into a film that same year, is being remade and directed byKatsuo Fukuzawa .Yukie Nakama andMasahiro Nakai are the stars, and the music is byJoe Hisaishi .External links
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