Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Comments

  • Demarco 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Although it was an American ("Taxi Driver" screenwriter) filming Mishima Yukio, although the starring Ogataken looks different from Mishima, the filming was really good. It turned out a strong Japanese freehand style. The film is divided into four chapters to show his life, starting on the day of Mishima's abdomen, flashing back his childhood to middle-age experience with black and white images, interspersed with the video of the three novels of Mishima, and finally ending with the abdomen. No...

  • Eino 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    The director tried to use the four works of "Confessions of the Mask", "House of Mirror", "Running Horse" and "Worry about the Country" from the four aspects of Mishima's understanding of beauty, the reshaping of the body, the political and military view, and the unity of the spirit and body. (Personally think) to analyze. But if it is a biography, it can only be described as a "personal profile." But as a movie, no matter it is narrative, ideology, and music, it is all to the extreme. I...

  • Grayson 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    I know Mishima because of Mo Yan's "Mishima Yukio Conjecture". It is undeniable that the character's experience is legendary, and the film's narrative method is very novel, but it is still like Yizhu's Japanese film, which did not interest...

  • Alda 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    Sure enough, he is a director who is a screenwriter. The text is peculiar, and it is simply connected to the scene and the music. All the way is artificial, and he walks out of the way. But the most vigorous finale, or the most formal essay that can do abdomen, is over with the reappearance of a warm novel scene and the sun. The director and screenwriter still lacked the courage to make the final ridiculous and ridiculous scene. Maybe it has something to do with the director's artistic appeal....

  • Sheila 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    You can’t talk about the point crookedly, and the images of Ogataken and Mishima can’t find a more convincing common...

  • Letitia 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    After the end, he could not move on the theater seat for a long time. Aesthetized life, aestheticized body, aestheticized experience, aestheticized sex, aestheticized creation, aestheticized political theory, aesthetically born and aesthetically dying, it is impossible for any of his stories to be less than aesthetically beautiful or A less romantic way of talking, just as its life should not end in other less dramatic ways, its death should not attract fewer eyeballs or spill more dilute...

  • Josue 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    The well-formed copy-style narrative, coupled with some stylized visual performance, is suitable for people who do not know Mishima, but it is not enough to be fully qualitative. The first child Mishima is from "Masked Confession", the second stuttering boy is "Kinkakuji Temple", the assassin youth is Iinuma Katsura in "Running Horse", where does Sawada Kenichi come from? There are also three islands in "Worry about the Country". Uncle Ogataquan's performance is also considered...

  • Clarabelle 2022-03-15 09:01:07

    I finally watched this legendary biographical film, and I was surprised that this film was produced jointly by top film artists. The effect of the film is far above rumors. Today, Mishima is between Don Quixote and the Japanese Wolf Warriors. Young people’s love for Mishima is probably out of confusion about beauty and death. However, in the end, Mishima's influence on me was limited to my hairstyle. I no longer think that Mishima is a first-class writer, because their soul must include love...

  • Retha 2022-03-15 09:01:07

    Exquisite workmanship and careful carving, Xu Xingquan is still too tall and strong, not like Mishima, the final moments of divergent flashbacks, black and white and color cross, stage installation art and real shooting, the work and reality are layered, color, The lighting, scenery, and photography are magnificent, thanks to Coppola and Lucas for the...

  • Danny 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    1. The selection of actors is too bad, and the temperament is completely inconsistent. Too martial, without the heroic, spiritual, and aristocratic spirit of Mishima. The biggest flaw, why not use Ryuichi Sakamoto? This is that European and American directors are completely unable to understand Asian culture. If there is knowledge under Mishima Springs, it will be pissed off. 2. The music is very good. 3. If you don't understand Mishima and his works, it might seem difficult. 4. The stage is...

Extended Reading

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters quotes

  • 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.

  • Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"): Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.