Masayuki Shionoya

Masayuki Shionoya

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    • Clement 2022-01-18 08:02:29

      Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, 1985

      At first I paid attention to this film because of its peculiar and gorgeous standard collector's edition cover. At first glance, I didn't even know who Mishima was. After checking it, I found out that it was Mishima. Yukio Mishima is an unfamiliar writer to me. I haven't seen any of his works,...

    • Alivia 2022-01-18 08:02:29

      "Mishima Yukio Biography"-Beautiful Bad Teeth

      Beauty is like a broken tooth. It will grind your tongue and cause pain. You can't help but emphasize the importance of yourself. Finally, you can't help but go to the doctor to pull it out, but you look bloody in your hands. The tooth said, is this it?

                                              -"The...

    • Chaim 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      The Death of Mishima and several novels. "The Golden Pavilion", "Running Horse", and another one?

    • Sandrine 2022-03-25 09:01:19

      "Body and spirit will never be united. There must be a higher principle somewhere that makes art and behavior in harmony. That principle that happens to me is gone. The vast atmosphere is high up where there is no oxygen to fill the dead, where people must survive. Wearing a mask, my mind is laid-back, my mind is active, there is no movement, no sound, no memory. The enclosed cockpit and the outside space are like mind and body. Here I see the result of my last effort. Here silence is above words. Beauty has no body and spirit Pen and sword Men and women And then I see a huge circle of light around the earth A circle that resolves all contradictions A circle bigger than the earth is more fragrant than all the scents I've ever smelled That's what I've always been The moment of exploration, the moment when the blade cuts through the skin, the sun rises and shines brightly to illuminate the entire sky” / Mirror / The United States always captures Japan’s unique beauty The United States and Japan are like a pair of counselors and patients in a counseling room There is a deformed love without this love there would be no Mishima

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters quotes

    • Yukio Mishima (Narrator): My need to transform reality was an urgent necessity, as important as three meals a day or sleep.

    • 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.