On Nov. 25, 1970, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima pulled a knife across his belly in the act of ritual suicide for which he had yearned most of his life. That suicide and the life that preceded it are ...

The New York reviews on Paul Schrader`s ”Mishima” have been astonishing to this critic. The film, one of the most ambitious made in recent years, has been dismissed as either incomprehensible or ...

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Paul Schrader's 1985 movie is an ambitious, respectful account of the life and work of Yukio Mishima, the prolific Japanese author who made a romantic cult of Japan's lost world of martial glory and ...

their art, but few died their art as ambitiously or publicly as Yukio Mishima—imperialist, bodybuilder, actor, director, best-selling author, homosexual, commander of his own private army, icon, and ...

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. Schrader shows ...