Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Directed by PAUL SCHRADER

Starring KEN OGATA MASAYUKI SHIONOYA HIROSHI MIKAM

1985

Released 11 JUNE

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This is Paul Schrader’s visually ravishing revision of what appears as a and , and director of works such as and , Schrader’s early career is littered with male martyrs who fall victim to their own hubris, or who yearn for the world to turn backwards on its axis. His 1985 curveball is an innovative and intuitive take on the traditional biopic which is entirely fitting of its idiosyncratic subject: the ultra-nationalist Japanese author, poet, actor, model and auto-didact, Yukio Mishima, who is brought to life with till-I-die commitment by the great Ken Ogata.