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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Criterion Collection
from Criterion Collection
starring Ken Ogata
directed by Paul Schrader

Features:

• Color
• Dolby
• NTSC
• Subtitled

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Simply Put: An Amazing Movie
  Paul Schrader has crafted a unique movie viewing experience. Using a combination of styles, he renders a psychological biography of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic personalities in the history of Japan. Schrader goes directly to the source and acts out Mishima's own words in the form of narration and enacting scenes from Mishima's novels. Adding to this, he acts out Mishima's final day when Mishma committed seppuku as a political protest. He also makes heavy use of flashbacks to tell Mishima's... more info

• An artistic biography
  This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a work of art. Depicting the life of Yukio Mishima, a controversial Japanese writer, who was considered for the Nobel Prize, this film delivers.
  The film depicts the last hours of Mishima's life with flashbacks of his earlier days.
  While the film is an American production, it is in the Japanese language. The film was too controversial to be released on home video in Japan, but has aired on... more info

• Elegance & Brutality
  Finally Criterion has gotten around to including one of my all time favorite films, Mishima. Directed by Paul Schrader and with beautiful set pieces by Ishioka Eiko, this is a truly great bio pic which Criterion has generoursly upgraded. This is the only bio pic I can think of that's based on a major modern Japanese author. It would be interesting to see other directors make films about Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Kafu. In Mishima you see his final day before committing seppuku as just another day and filmed in... more info

• Mishima: life and fiction
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is visually stunning and features a soundtrack by Phillip Glass. It's about the life of writer Yukio Mishima, and the film alternates between his last day - when he and his private army(!) of ultra-nationalists tried to take control of the japanese army and reinstall the emperor as ruler of Japan - earlier episodes (as a boy, teenager and so on), and filmed scenes from his novels. All in all, we get some insights of Mishimas way to self-realisation, as a writer and warrior,... more info

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