Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Dec 17, 2008 – Dec 23, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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$10
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The character and name Yukio Mishima is an evocative one, and about as multifaceted as a Buckyball. It's the glamorous nom de plume of Japan's most image-ready and inflammatory post-war writer, Kimitake Hiraoka — the anachronistic imperialist who, in 1970, commandeered an army base with his followers and committed seppuku in one last, glorious stroke of genius. Paul Schrader's phenomenal biopic, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, parses the novelist's life through four exquisite, mask-unfastening acts (Beauty, Art, Action, Harmony of Pen and Sword). Propelled by Philip Glass' swelling, mock-heroic score, the film binds a docudramatic recreation of Mishima's last day to beautiful black-and-white flashbacks of his formative years and three radiant interpretations of his art-imitates-life novels.
