This year showed Hashimoto to be a hit film maker of unprecedented greatness when "Yatsuhaka Mura" (Village of the Eight Tombs) (1977 film on which Hashimoto worked as screenwriter) was released by Shochiku only three months later and achieved numbers close to his previous film.
僅か3ヵ月後に松竹で公開された『八つ墓村(1977年の映画)』（脚本担当）もこれに迫る数字をはじき出し、この年の橋本はまさに空前絶後の大ヒットメーカーぶりを示す。