Shinobu Hashimoto
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Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Hashimoto entered the army in 1938 but fell ill with tuberculosis, spending four years in a veterans’ sanitarium where a fellow patient handed him a film magazine that sparked his fascination with screenwriting; he subsequently drafted a script based on his military experience. From the early 1950s onward he became a principal collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, co-authori…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources