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Susie 2022-01-18 08:02:29
B+ / At first I thought that the setting of the text level was too rigid and stylized, but later I felt that this kind of sluggishness was just in line with the solemn spiritual ritual. Although the adaptation of the work is limited to the four-stage style and is slightly scribbled, the symbiosis of the installation + the stage + the real scene is really very charming. I personally thought that the casting and performance were relatively failed, but the rhythm and the script were saved....
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Comments
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.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Director: Paul Schrader
Language: Japanese,English Release date: September 20, 1985