After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in Japanese ...

Mishima's predilection for Hawaiian shirts, white, patent leather shoes, and the faux-Spanish villa he built are an easy target. Rather than lingering on the question of whether Mishima was a ...

Author Yukio Mishima Whispers from the battlefield Released this year by Penguin Random House on the 100th anniversary of his birth, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories” is the culmination ...

Ian Buruma contemplates Yukio Mishima’s violent death alongside a new collection of short stories by the writer, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes,” edited by Stephen Dodd.

Mishima tried to make Japan conform to the dictates of his imagination, but in the film's shattering climax, he learns that the real world is a messier, less predictable place than the world of ideas.

Paul Schrader on why his masterpiece “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" never showed in Japan and shares details of his new film 'Non Compos Mentis.' ...