Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985, 121m, DCP, U.S./Japan

 

Showtimes & Tickets

Screened April 15, 2018

Part of the program

The most famous Japanese writer of the postwar generation—whose rigorous pursuit of conservative values and physical prowess made him a controversial public figure—is paid tribute in Schrader’s elaborately stylized biopic, blending colorful dramatizations of his novels with black-and-white flashbacks and a hypnotic Philip Glass score. (Four Play)

In English and Japanese with English subtitles

A film by Paul Schrader