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Hester 2022-01-18 08:02:29
The unity of pen and sword
The words are all fictitious.
In order to change the world, words must lie,
but the behavior will never lie
. The unity of pen and sword.
But how? ...
What is the Japanese spirit that Mishima pursues?
This is not something I can figure out at the moment,
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Carmine 2022-01-18 08:02:29
The director has long known that Ogata Ken is not suitable to play Mishima, but the preferred actor withdrew due to pressure from the right wing in Japan, and the creator had no choice.
I have seen many comments from the audience, especially the short comment that said that the image of Ken Ogata is not suitable for playing Mishima Yukio.
In fact, director Paul Schrader knew this a long time ago. However, the filming of this film was opposed by the Japanese right (do not want...
Kenji Sawada
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Thurman 2022-03-19 09:01:08
Just complain: the three islands all live on the first floor, not the second floor. Fortunately, if you are familiar with Mishima's works and life, you can know that there is no sentence in it that has no special meaning. There is no nonsense. The rest is that this film is very faithful to the biography of Mishima written by Henry Scott Stokes (this book has a Chinese version, but the name is forgotten).
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Thurman 2022-03-26 09:01:12
1 beauty "Temple of the Golden Pavilion"; 2 art "Kyoko's House"; 3 action "Runaway Horses"; 4 harmony of pen and sword
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters quotes
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Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): [stuttering] It was as s-small as this, but grew so big... it filled the world like... tremendous music. That's the p-p-power of beauty's eternity. It poisons us. It blocks out our lives.
Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): Please, enough of your pride! Beauty is like a rotten tooth. It rubs against your tongue, hurting, insisting on its importance. Finally you go to a dentist and have it pulled. Then you look at the small bloody tooth in your hand and say, "Is that all it was?" That's the way it is.
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Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.
