Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 4K 1985

Paul Schrader, a talented writer who penned the screenplays for my favorite Scorsese films, presents here the biography of the last samurai, whose real name is remembered only by specialists, but whose literary pseudonym is familiar to many, and some of his works have been read by many.

The writer Yukio Mishima, who wrote words on paper for twenty years and did not receive the Nobel Prize at least three times for them, ended his physical existence through the ritual of seppuku during a toy rebellion he raised, which summed up his life in such different and seemingly mutually exclusive guises.

The poet's biography is his works; Schroeder writes the poet's life based on his books, adding a minimum of reality to his narrative, and when the writing process ends, the hero dies for real. He writes the last character and, after a good night's sleep, cuts open his trained stomach with a practiced movement.

“True poetry is written with one's own blood."

Good accents, a beautiful life, and a dignified painful death.

Specialists in the work of this mad genius are unlikely to find anything significant here for themselves due to the somewhat textbook nature of the approach; in other words, the author does not reveal any hidden secrets, omits some nuances, and it is a very decent film with good acting, cinematography, and everything else that is required.

I could not find a worthy equivalent for the aphorism in the epigraph, which is great and undoubtedly powerful, so I left it as it is. A strange life, undertaken in the form of a poem attempting to break free from linguistic dependence.