Is there a form of literary aesthetics of the body? I first became seriously aware of this possibility while reading novelist Yukio Mishima’s autobiographical essay “Sun and Steel.” ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

Mishima’s torso is buffed from years of bodybuilding ... I realized I would have to move my body first.” He didn’t just want to be remembered as a great writer; he wanted to be remembered ...

It’s almost better to not even consider Paul Schrader’s magnum opus, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a biopic at all. While ...

The remarkable new short story collection by Yukio Mishima, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories” is newly translated and published 55 years after his very public death in 1970. Never before ...

“Mishima could give stimulating clues to students ... “You just don’t know what a lot of whole-body expressions humans would be able to repeat every day if only they had this sense that ...

Paul Schrader tells the incredible story of why his masterpiece “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" never showed in Japan and shares details of his new film “Non Compos Mentis." For such a ...