Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985, R, 121 min.
Directed by Paul Schrader, Starring Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Naoko Otani, Go Riju, Roy Scheider.
Schrader fashions a highly unconventional biopic from the life of Japanese post-war writer and political traditionalist Yukio Mishima, who shocked the world with his ritual suicide in 1970.
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