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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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R,2hrs 0min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1985
Director:
Paul Schrader
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Yasosuke Bando  ...more
Synopsis: In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the last five decades. The film begins with Mishima's youth, then moves forward in episodic fashion to his 1970 suicide, symbolically committed at a military site. Originally titled Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, the film is neatly divided into a quartet of acts, and the screenplay does not flinch in its depiction of Mishima's hyperactive sex life. Among the many neat directorial ... Full Synopsis
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Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous death, but also on his work. Schrader uses three of Mishima's semi-autobiographical novels as the basis for exploring the author's obsessions and ideas. Cutting back and forth between these tales and Mishima's real-life ... Full Review
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Ken Ogata
Yukio Mishima
Masayuki Shionoya
Morita
Yasosuke Bando
Mizoguchi
Hiroshi Mikami
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