Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
On November 25, 1970, Japan's greatest author Yukio Mishima commited an act that shocked the literary world...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 22, 2018
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Ken Ogata | |
| Performer: | Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kenji Sawara & Yasosuke Bando | |
| Directed by | Paul Schrader | |
| Composition by | Philip Glass | |
| Produced by | Tom Luddy & Mataichirô Yamamoto | |
| Director of Photography: | John Bailey | |
| Executive Production by | Francis Ford Coppola & George Lucas |
Entertainment Reviews:
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One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film.
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New Yorker
...A boldly conceived, intelligent and consistently absorbing study....[A] seductively designed picture...
Variety
"Mishima" tries to make sense of both its subject's life and his work, and ends up illuminating neither.
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Washington Post
...You may not be able to take your eyes from the screen...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic necessarily guts his controversial life - but the visual style is superb.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
A very stylish, if emotionally constrained film.
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Guardian
A Life in Four Chapters is an example of an artistic expression so compelling that it - perhaps particularly for more distant Western observers - transcends many of the complex, difficult, and politically-charged circumstances which surrounded it.
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PopMatters
Product Description:
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS is director Paul Schrader's stunning film biography of one of Japan's most celebrated post-World War II writers--Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata). A fictionalized account in four segments, three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILLION, KYOKO'S HOUSE, and RUNAWAY HORSES), while the fourth depicts November 25, 1970, the last day of his life, a day in which he committed two puzzling, stunning acts--one political, one deeply personal. MISHIMA is an amazing, disturbing multidimensional character study whose stunning visual splendor is supported by a riveting score by Philip Glass. It is a daring film that explores an obsessed artist--and tries to understand him--through his own writing.
