
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most celebrated writer, Yukio Mishima, shocked the world.
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9/20/1985Runtime
121 minsGenres
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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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$5,000,000Revenue
$502,758Homepage
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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.
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Ken Ogata
Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")

Go Riju
Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")

Masayuki Shionoya
Morita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Hiroshi Mikami
Cadet #1 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Junkichi Orimoto
General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")
Masato Aizawa
Mishima - age 9-14 (segment "Flashbacks")
Junya Fukuda
Cadet #2 (segment "November 25, 1970")
Shigeto Tachihara
Cadet #3 (segment "November 25, 1970")
Yuki Nagahara
Mishima, age 5 (segment "Flashbacks")

Kyuzo Kobayashi
Literary Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Yuki Kitazume
Dancing Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Haruko Katō
Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")
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