Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most celebrated writer, Yukio Mishima, shocked the world.

1985121 min7.8 / 10

A visually stunning, intellectually demanding meditation on art, identity, and self-destruction that interweaves Mishima's fictional worlds with the historical tragedy of his suicide.

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

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