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- 1985
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
- 1985
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
Summary A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Directed By: Paul Schrader
- 1985
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
- 1985
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
8.3
Summary A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
Directed By: Paul Schrader
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Universal Acclaim
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
81
73% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Can a film that raises more questions about its subject than it answers be considered a masterpiece? If it can, that film is Paul Schrader's innovative cinematic biography of the Japanese novelist, essayist and actor Yukio Mishima, the man who in 1970 committed public seppuku (hara-kiri) in an unprecedented, grandiloquent attempt to turn his life into art. [12 Sep 1985]
One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film.
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The most unconventional biopic I've ever seen, and one of the best.
A beautiful, deadly serious attempt by Paul and Leonard Schrader to illuminate the life--and death--of one of Japan's most highly visible and self-propelling enigmas.
Mishima's most stunning aspect is the visual style employed in the dramatizations of the novels. With colorful, theatrical sets by famed Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka, the sequences are quite unique and impressive in their own right, and the entire film is photographed beautifully by John Bailey.
Here is an American film, in Japanese with English subtitles, written, directed and photographed by Americans, made in Japan with a Japanese cast, which attempts to reveal the spiritual mysteries of a quintessentially Japanese phenomenon. That it doesn't succeed is almost a foregone conclusion. What is surprising, however, is that Mishima is as tolerable as it is, given all the strikes against it.
Production Company
Zoetrope Studios,
Filmlink International,
Lucasfilm,
M Company,
Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.,
Tristone Entertainment Inc.
Release Date Sep 20, 1985
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Tagline On November 25, 1970, Japan's greatest author Yukio Mishima commited an act that shocked the literary world...
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
