Mishima - une vie en quatre chapitres

Original title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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Mishima - une vie en quatre chapitres (1985)

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Psychological Drama Biography Drama

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

15K

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- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Yukio Mishima's family originally cooperated with the making of this film but when their request that the gay bar scene be removed was denied, they withdrew their help.

Goofs
Mishima didn't exaggerate his illness. He was declared unfit for military service because of an inexperienced Army physician's misdiagnosis.

Quotes
Yukio Mishima (Narrator): [voice over] The average age for a man in the Bronze Age was eighteen, in the Roman era, twenty-two. Heaven must have been beautiful then. Today it must look dreadful. When a man reaches forty, he has no chance to die beautifully. No matter how he tries, he will die of decay. He must compel himself to live.

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Yukio Mishima is acknowledged to have been a real person, but his acts have been fictionalized by writers. Other persons and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons and events is unintentional.

Alternate versions
On Japanese television, the gay bar scene is cut out.

Connections
Featured in Mardi cinéma: Episode dated 14 May 1985 (1985)

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John Bailey's cinematography makes this film sparkle

Not many films can make a scene where a sado-masochist couple slice each other with razor blades appear beautiful, but Mishima pulls it off with plausible insight to a life style which is difficult to imagine. The film is intercut with lavishly produced scenes from Mishima's plays, but even the main biographic scenes of the film are highly theatrical.

John Bailey deserves a lot of credit for the lustrous visual quality of this film.