The film has a character all of its own, and features stunningly reconstructed extracts from some of Mishima ‘s key novels to evoke aspects of the writer’s tortured soul, his quest for absolute beauty ...
On the 40th anniversary of Mishima’s death, Peter Galvin reflects on the life of the notorious Japanese literary figure and the fate of the film he inspired. On the 25th November 1970 Yukio Mishima, ...
November 25 this year marks the forty-seventh anniversary of the so-called Mishima Incident—one of the most shocking happenings of postwar Japanese history. What happened in the space of 80 ...
After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in Japanese with ...