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Compound Cinematics (paperback) : Akira Kurosawa and I by Shinobu Hashimoto (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKodansha America, Incorporated

ISBN-101647293227

ISBN-139781647293222

eBay Product ID (ePID)12059104616

Product Key Features

Book TitleCompound Cinematics (Paperback) : Akira Kurosawa and I

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFilm / Screenwriting, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / Direction & Production

Publication Year2023

GenrePerforming Arts, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorShinobu Hashimoto

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisA biography on Academy 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., Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers an indispensable insider account and invaluable insights into the unique process that is writing for the screen. Now in paperback, Compound Cinematics also stands as a moving reckoning of sorts. The vast majority of Kurosawa's oeuvre was filmed from screenplays that the director co-wrote with a stable of stellar scenarists. Among these was the author, who caught the filmmaker's attention with a script that eventually turned into Rashomon, and who went on to play an integral part in developing and writing two of the grandmaster's crowning jewels-Ikiru and Seven Samurai-and other cineaste favorites. The late Shinobu Hashimoto (1918-2018) penned numerous films of note for other directors as well, including Harakiri for Masaki Kobayashi, Mount Hakkoda for Shiro Moritani, and Village of the Eight Tombs for Yoshitaro Nomura.