More than a few foreign filmmaker have tried relocating to Hollywood, but it’s less often the case that an acclaimed Hollywood artist takes their talents overseas. Paul Schrader, at the height of his ...

Update October 1, 2025: A year after Schrader thought that “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” would screen at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, the director is finally getting his wish. The ...

I’m a writer. I mean, duh. I’m writing this article, aren’t I? But, outside of penning articles, I also write novels. Chronicling the life of Japanese author, Yukio Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters is ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Movie fans in Japan are accustomed to waiting months, sometimes years, for new releases to make it over here. It doesn’t normally take four decades. Such was the case with Paul Schrader’s “Mishima: A ...

The film reps an attempt to understand the ultra-nationalist ideology that prompted novelist Yukio Mishima's failed coup and subsequent seppuku in 1970. Wakamatsu rejects outright both the biopic ...

In the decades since its 1985 release, director Paul Schrader’s “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” based on the life and work of the prolific Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, has grown in stature to ...