Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most celebrated writer, Yukio Mishima, shocked the world.

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Release Date

9/20/1985

Runtime

121 mins

Genres

Overview

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$502,758

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A visually sumptuous, formally daring meditation on the life of an artist consumed by beauty, sexuality, and ideological fever, which constructs meaning through the collision of his fiction with his lived reality. The film moves between stylized dramatizations of Mishima's novels and documentary-like sequences, building toward an inevitable catastrophe with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.

Mood

ContemplativeBleak

Themes

IdentityArt and creationMortalityObsession

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyStylized genre

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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