As Mishima’s career progressed ... male in death” (including his famous recreation of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian) and eventually staging it onscreen in his short film “Patriotism ...

The references to the saint didn’t end there—Mishima, who was himself gay, went so far as to pose as Saint Sebastian in a now-infamous photographic portrait, taken not long before the writer ...

(Mishima, aptly enough, supervised a Japanese translation of D’Annunzio’s play “The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian.”) But none of these men turned suicidal imaginings into a deadly work of ...

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 ...

But, when it comes to what I think is the greatest movie about a writer that I’ve ever seen, I have to go with Paul Schrader’s 1985 biopic, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Chronicling the ...

In the upcoming free story DLC – the first in the series – we'll see the return of series big bad, Heihachi, bringing the story back to its central conflict – the Mishima family saga.

Examining the canon of critical musings on Yukio Mishima, Marguerite Yourcenar's work might be favorably compared alongside Henry Scott-Stokes, John Nathan and Damian Flanagan's biographies.

He spends the novel keeping his true identity hidden, much like Mishima in his early life. Like all Japanese men his age, Kochan expects to go to war when the time comes, and he describes his wait ...