Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 17, 2008
- 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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Rating: 4/5 --
The gorgeous, artsy 1985 biopic Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is the best movie that Paul Schrader has yet directed.
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Times (UK)
"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
Rating: 4/5 --
Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic necessarily guts his controversial life - but the visual style is superb.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 5/5 --
Graced with a throbbing orchestral score from Philip Glass and John Bailey's luminous photography, this is appropriately monumental filmmaking.
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Time Out
If one cannot seriously address the sexuality of a man who was so obviously obsessed and driven by sex, then why bother making a film of his life at all?
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The New York Review of Books
...A boldly conceived, intelligent and consistently absorbing study....[A] seductively designed picture...
Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
As Mishima imagines his new trajectory through the upper atmosphere, Mishima finds its own resting place, and the sleepy drone of Glass's organs swells on the soundtrack, both eerie and comforting--anthem, hymn, and requiem.
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Film Freak Central
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.
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