Career
In 2008, Hashimoto"s screenplay for I Want to Be a Shellfish (Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai), a post-World World War II war crimes trial drama based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and made into a film that same year, is being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa. Yukie Nakama and Masahiro Nakai are the stars, and the music is by Joe Hisaishi.