As Mishima’s career progressed, he became increasingly preoccupied with his public persona, transforming his own life into a form of performance art through photography and film, notoriously ...

Chronicling the life of Japanese author, Yukio Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters is unlike any other biopic that you’ve likely ever seen, and I need to talk about it. But, when my love of film is ...

Through the restored 4K footage and interviews of the people involved in the discussion, the people who knew Mishima at that time, journalists and authors of our times, the film pursues timeless ...

As a director, the film Schrader is still most proud is 1985's Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters. It is the most daring films ever funded by a mainstream Hollywood studio. If you’ve never seen it ...

Mishima has inspired works of art by film directors like Paul Schrader, Benoît Jacquot, and Lewis John Carlino; the Belgian choreographer Maurice Béjart, who dedicated a ballet to Mishima ...

“Mishima” was never officially banned from being shown in Japan, but there were verbal agreements that, for all intents and purposes, “unofficially” banned the film. To understand how that ...

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A combination of death and eroticism saturates almost all of Mishima’s novels, short stories, and plays, as well as his short film “Patriotism,” from 1966, in which Mishima, portraying a ...

which is being released by Criterion alongside Mishima's own 1966 short film "Patriotism." Calling Schrader's masterpiece a mere biopic doesn't do it justice. It's more a dreamy, hypnotic ...

While taking part in a post-screening Q&A as part of Metrograph’s membership series last month, Schrader broke the news that the Tokyo International Film Festival (October 28 to November 6, 2024) is ...

Paul Schrader’s cinematic collage of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima’s life and work, from 1985, is one of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film.