Compound Cinematics

Akira Kurosawa and I

Shinobu Hashimoto

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Random House
01 April 2015

Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

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.

Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto at or near the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers indispensable insider account for fans and students of the director's oeuvre and invaluable insights into the unique process that is writing for the screen.

The vast majority of Kurosawa works were filmed from screenplays that the director co-wrote with a stable of stellar writers, many of whom he discovered himself with his sharp eye for all things cinematic. Among these was Hashimoto, who caught the filmmaker's attention with a script that eventually turned into Rashomon. Thus joining Team Kurosawa the debutant immediately went on to play an integral part in developing and writing two of the grandmaster's most impressive achievements, Ikiru and Seven Samurai.

By: Shinobu Hashimoto
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9781939130570
ISBN 10: 1939130573
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 entered the world of film. His debut work was an immediate critical success in the form of the screenplay for Kurosawa's 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, and The Outrage with Paul Newman.

Reviews for Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I

Fans of Japanese cinema, as well as film historians should make it a point to read Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I, due to its immense profundity on both Hashimoto's impact on cinema as a whole, as well as Kurosawa's output as a filmmaker. Shinobu Hashimoto is one of the greatest screenwriters of Japan and this book can help English language speakers discover just a bit more about him, through one of the finest film books to be released in a long time.... Highly Recommended! -FilmMonthly Part memoir, part screenwriting textbook, part treatise on the art of filmmaking, Compound Cinematics is a fascinating look inside the mind of one of the great screenwriters and his collaborations with one of the world's greatest directors.... the book gives a wealth of information on how the director prepared for his films and wrote them. For Kurosawa scholars and even just fans of his movies, these details are absolutely wonderful.... for the sections with Kurosawa and the behind-the-scenes look at three of the world's greatest films, this book is highly recommended. -Cinema Sentries If you are interested in the creative process behind some of the greatest works of cinema, then I wholeheartedly recommend this book.... Hashimoto is one of the unsung masters. And Kurosawa is a master who cannot be sung enough. A book on their collaborations is a treasure for practitioners of screen storytelling and fans of movie history alike. -Making the Movie