The Hidden Fortress
Hashimoto was frequent collaborator with Akira Kurosawa, from 1950 to 1970 writing eight screenplays Kurosawa directed. He often worked with Hideo Oguni, Ryūzō Kikushima as well as Kurosawa himself on the scripts for those projects. Hashimoto won numerous awards for his writing, including a succession of Blue Ribbon Awards and Mainichi Film Awards, particularly in the 1950s and '60s. Hashimoto wrote more than eighty screenplays, including "Rashomon", "Ikiru", "Seven Samurai" (1950), "Throne of Blood" (a 1957 adaptation of "Macbeth" set in Japan), and "The Hidden Fortress" (1958). He also directed three films.