The Pen of the Demon: The Glory and Setbacks of Shinobu Hashimoto, Postwar Japan's Greatest Screenwriter is a biography by film and period-drama historian Taichi Kasuga. Drawing on lengthy interviews with Hashimoto, accounts from people around him, and his writing notebooks, it traces the life and work of a screenwriter who helped shape postwar Japanese cinema.

A biography tracing screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto's work and life through interviews and creative materials.