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A biography on Acamedy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa, as told by his screenwriter and producer Shinobu Hashimoto. This book should be shelved in the non-fiction and media sections as it will appeal to those who have been inspired by his works throughout the decades.
Akira Kurosawa has been regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, and one man stood beside him for most of his illustrious career - his screenwriter and collabrator Shinobu Hashimoto. In Compound Cinematics, Hashimoto pulls back the camera and reveals the actual process of how such global hits as The Seven Samura, To Live and Roshamon were made from within the writer's studio to the very sets of Kagemusha and Ran.
Compound Cinematics (paperback)
by Hashimoto, ShinobuFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2023-11-14
Publisher(s): Vertical
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Author Biography
Shinobu Hashimoto is an award-winning screen-writer and film producer, best known across the globe for his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa. Born in 1918, in southern Japan, Hashimoto was only a middle-school graduate before he began to enter the world of film. His debut work was an immediate critical success in the form of the screenplay for Roshamon.
Through the years he went on to work on the following movies among his more than 50 films:
Roshamon
Ikuru -To Live-
The Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress
Paul Newman's The Outrage
Through the years he went on to work on the following movies among his more than 50 films:
Roshamon
Ikuru -To Live-
The Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress
Paul Newman's The Outrage
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