In Schrader’s view, Mishima was also prone to a schizophrenic identity, reflected in the way the writer kept his social circles apart. But instead of casting multiple actors, ...

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 ...

Its subject: Yukio Mishima, a controversial figure whose death so deeply shocked Japan that the film, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, remains banned there. Now — in the U.S. at least — the Criterion ...

Mishima is a mosaic in which Schrader has attempted to assemble the disparate pieces of the Japanese writer’s life into a coherent picture. Coherent it isn’t, but intriguing it is.

“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” which IndieWire ranked as the second-best film of the 1980s, is considered by many as writer/director Paul Schrader’s masterpiece. When Schrader was a ...

On Nov. 25, 1970, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima pulled a knife across his belly in the act of ritual suicide for which he had yearned most of his life.That suicide and the life that preceded it ...

In Schrader’s vision for the unconventional biopic, each of the four chapters of Mishima’s life is anchored by a theatrical-like adaptation of one of his novels, but getting those rights, he ...

The New York reviews on Paul Schrader`s ”Mishima” have been astonishing to this critic. The film, one of the most ambitious made in recent years, has been dismissed as either incomprehensible ...

“I was very enamored with suicidal glory. Christianity is a blood cult, and it glorifies suicidal sacrifice,” said director Paul Schrader, explaining the origins of “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” ...

After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in Japanese ...

With 40 novels, 18 plays, 20 volumes of short stories, and numerous major essays under his belt when he died at age 45, it is a puzzle to any writer how the Japanese author Yukio Mishima ever ...