71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Paul Schrader
USA      120 m.
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Portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima, which investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima's last day, when he famously committed public suicide by means of the harakiri rite, the film is punctuated by flashbacks to the writer's life as well as by gloriously stylised evocations of his fictional works.

Director
Paul Schrader
Screenplay
Chieko Schrader, Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader
Production
American Zoetrope (USA)
Tom Luddy, Mataichiro Yamamoto , George Lucas , Francis Ford Coppola
Sales
Fortissimo Films (Netherlands)
Photography
John Bailey
Edition
Michael Chandler
Music
Philip Glass
Cast
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
120 m.
Country
USA
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