Stars: Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Masayuki Shionoya, Yasosuke Bando, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shigeto Tachihara, Junkichi Orimoto, Naoko Otami, Go Riju, Masato Aizawa, Yuki Nagahara, Kyuzo Kobayashi, Yuki Kitazume

Director: Paul Schrader

Summary: The story of Mishima, the famous post-war Japanese author who translated his life through his books and who was eventually to take his life by the ritual act of seppuku. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

MISHIMA - A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS is director Paul Schrader's stunning film biography of one of Japan's most celebrated post-World War II writers--Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata). A fictionalized account in four segments, three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILLION, KYOKO'S HOUSE, and RUNAWAY HORSES), while the fourth depicts November 25, 1970, the last day of his life, a day in which he committed two puzzling, stunning acts--one political, one deeply personal. MISHIMA is an amazing, disturbing multidimensional character study whose stunning visual splendour is supported by a riveting score by Philip Glass. It is a daring film that explores an obsessed artist--and tries to understand him--through his own writing.

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Main Language:	Japanese
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1985
Release Date:	July 10, 2009
Runtime:	120 minutes
Certification:
Keywords:	Language, Subtitled, Life, Four, Mishima, Chapters, Drama, Japanese
Genre:	Drama