Don't you see? A real sword will kill you.
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Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto (Japanese: 橋本 忍, Hashimoto Shinobu; 18 April 1918 – 19 July 2018) was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as Rashomon and Seven Samurai. 2Early life Shinobu Hashimoto was born in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan on 18 April 1918. In 1938 he enlisted in the army, but became ill with tuberculosis while still training and spent four years in a veterans' sanitarium. 2Career While hospitalized, another patient gave Hashimoto a film magazine. The magazine sparked his interest in screenwriting and he began a screenplay about his army experience, spending three years on the project.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 (an 1957 adaptation of Macbeth set in Japan), and The Hidden Fortress (1958). He also directed three films.Achieving international acclaim, Hashimoto's scripts inspired notable films abroad, including The Magnificent Seven (1960 and then remade again in 2016), a remake of Seven Samurai, and Star Wars (1977), which George Lucas has described as inspired by The Hidden Fortress.In 2006, he authored a memoir entitled Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I. In 2008, Hashimoto wrote a screenplay for I Want to Be a Shellfish, a second full-length film adaptation of the post-World War II-based television series he wrote for TBS Television in 195
Consider who we're dealing with here. Give a wolf a taste of your leg and he'll ask for your hand.
Actually, kids work harder than adults. But only if you treat them like adults.
Find hungry samurai. Even bears come down from the mountains when they are hungry.
All farmers ever do is worry, whether the rain falls, the sun shines or the wind blows. In short, all they know is fear.
Train yourself, distinguish yourself in war... But time flies. Before your dream materializes, you get gray hair. By that time your parents and friends are dead and gone.
You all make great scarecrows. Problem is, the enemy isn't a bunch of sparrows and crows!
This baby... It's me... It's what happened to me!
You fool! Damn you! You call yourself a horse! For shame! Hey! Wait! Please! I apologize! Forgive me!
Shichiroji: Kikuchiyo, what on earth are you doing? Kikuchiyo: I can't kill a lot with one sword!
So. Again we are defeated. [Shichiroji looks puzzled at Kambei] The farmers have won. Not us.
Danger always strikes when everything seems fine.
This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself.
Kambei Shimada: Go to the north. The decisive battle will be fought there. Gorobei Katayama: Why didn't you build a fence there? Kambei Shimada: A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in. So we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war.
A woman loves a man who loves passionately.
I'm the one who should be ashamed. I don't understand my own soul.
No one tells a lie after he's said he's going to tell one.
A man has to make a woman his by his sword.
War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my…
Damn it. Everyone is selfish and dishonest. Making excuses. The bandit, the woman, the man, and you!