Mishima speech (with English Subs)

[acerb45666555]

when will at least one ranking Japanese officer make a severe impactful public statement concerning the treatment of youre ethnic cousins over here!....watch the big scandal!>>"Tom Jackson on the State of Emergency in Attawapiskat "

[neguser1]

日本に侍がなくなったのは戦後のアメリカの占領政策が原因です。­

[klae04]

I don't want to judge those who prefer to live for an ideal rather than to die for an ideal: I find it rational and noble. However those who hate and mock an heroic gesture just because they never tried to understand what its meaning is, I despise them. Because they're either direspectful ignorants or a bunch of cowards.

I think that is what Mishima found unbearable about modernity.

None of you is asked to agree with him or commit seppuku, but at least show some respect if you are able to.

[fabiozulianifilms]

A great poet too!!...

[aixacharles]

i will be there stand in the street fighting with yukio,i want to do tue seppukku ritual on day

[CUISINEZ1]

MISHIMA MY LOVE

[DarkprinX2500]

im glad this warmonger is dead.. i prefer my anime and jpop..^^

[tokinohito2012]

@DarkprinX2500 so dont post a comment on this video. Are you ABC or wut? i know people like you never purchase but download illegally. never contribute to both japan and US economy. Chinese are chinese even in other country. never changes

[Katsumotothesamurai]

do some japanese still commit hara-kiri like yukio mishima?

[LegoSaur37]

@Katsumotothesamurai I'm sure some do. Just a handful though.

[bemyart90]

Mishima is the Master. His legacy is timeless.

I'm a 20-y-o girl, have been reading Mishima for two years. Not long but long enough to say that I respect and admire this man with all my heart.

Love to Mishima Yukio form Vietnam :x

To hate commenters: he's better than you all and always will be. Keep hating.

[clarkewi]

@bemyart90 I remember this incident when I was a student in California and facing the military conscription /draft for Viet Nam. I was struck by Mishima. He seemed to me to be a modern Don Quixote - a man out of time. But his legend lives on.

[AveEvropa]

The rising sun will set in the horizon again, Mishima's spirit is not forgotten. Long live the last samurai. ONORE.

[antibigbrother3000]

The Fall of the West and the USA is a matter of time.

China will be the next empire because they dont just live for themselves.

Japan must wake up!

[PrimordialEntity]

With each passing day and with each book i read by this great man,silent worship seems to be the only true way of commemorating such talent,such profound words as were his.

Although,we modern europeans may be worlds apart from the long past romanticism that we used to know in our hearts,Yukio Mishima's art strikes a deep chord.

[Rico8458]

the radiation today, the nuclear disaster are the gods punish japan for losing their way?

[goducks20101]

@Rico8458 No, it was the result of stupidly building a nuclear power station in a region already known for earthquakes combined with tsunamis. In summation, it was an accident waiting to happen. With all due respect, please leave the "gods" out of it and pray instead.

[rambo753]

It's not by chance that the societies which despise and laugh at honour and fight values are constantly involved in bloody and criminal wars (the US and modern west). By despising war values they despise the enemy, dehumanizing him.

Then the resorting to criminal action is just a consequence.

[joey5jordison]

Does anyone know what's the title of this documentary and where can I watch it?

Thanks

[MrSmileyHasABigDong]

is he hanging his laundry over that big building? XD

[Chokula99]

He lived and Died with Passion,and a purpose.

[SawLots]

Number one videos: 247,929,589 million viewers U.K. "Charlie bit my finger"

watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

[SawLots]

Homo afraid of getting old he said he would kill himself rather than see his body rotting getting old.

He says of the make-believe coup d'état it's all just a plan for his dramatic suicide "nobody will remember an old dead man but they will all remember a young dead man."

[kenshin420jj]

@SawLots wtf have ever done?

how dare a rabbit write about a tiger.

[SawLots]

@kenshin420jj

Don't type to me ladyman and fuck off.

[Tothe2012]

These thread comments always boil down to the lowest common denominators of politics and sexual orientation.

Pay attention to what he is actually talking about - it's a fascinating analysis of the mystery of human life and the impact of life and death on the meaning of lives.

[idreamofdevo]

Mishima was bisexual. And he was no pansy. The homophobes who commented below are irrelevant while Mishima still lives in the hearts of those who understand him (or desire to understand him).

[MrSmileyHasABigDong]

mishima is simply a bisexual ninja born to late :P

[theiselme]

well yukio wanted to bring back the emporer and wanted to militaries japan and move away from usa im not america lover but in my mind mishima was a facist!!

[andrelebaron]

he was still a fag.

[decimated550]

@andrelebaron -- i've never liked artists, they are soo self centered it makes me sick. Parasites. They take something functional like a staircase, designed by someone else, used for normal, reasons, and in a sense "steal" it and make it their own, and sell it to other "wannabe artists" who can't create so they just give money to real artists to showcase for them.

And he was a fag. I have no prob with that at all, but when someone is both gay and an artist at the same time, forget it!

[fedornavid]

THE LAST SAMURAI,I AS AN IRANIAN SALUTE YOU.

[piroshikinohu]

hey fucking foreiners i m japanese

.dont behave recognize his thinking , you guys never understand his beautiful thinking ,  its only under stand samurai soul. you dirty bitchs .for us

[NKombo]

@piroshikinohu I agree with you 100% LOL from Greece

[MrMynameisdude]

@piroshikinohu

can agree to some extend but i think every human being is capable of understanding but not accepting thoughts of others.

if you still insist it equals to saying that you will never be able to understand let's say stoics and if ur talking about samurai culture understanding than you prolly does not understand this either. plus moments change

[zeppelin2689]

日本人でもが三島の考え方が分からないんだ。　三島は本当に天才だった。日本人か、外人か、みんなは三島の考え­が分からないんだ。民族と関係なく。

[fieldspec]

in days of crisis of ideals, of selfishness and egoism, he's still a lesson for everyone of us. To the people that hate him, I humbly say that there is no need to follow completely his "extremism", because his lesson is also that if the world were better, there would be no need for this kind of behaviour. But maybe in the and it's just another missed chance to improve our situation.

[cleodel88]

He was just as selfish and greedy as every other person on this planet and, as it seems from the comments below, was successful at fooling everyone else into believing he was not so.

[SayonaraSweden]

Selfishness and greed has always been the way to live.

[MadMonarchist]

On the anniversary of his death, a salute to Yukio Mishima, a man of vision, of high ideals who died an honorable death in the service of the Emperor. Banzai Mishima!

[willyrobinson]

this isn't his last speech its interesting commentary and then a very brief clip of him giving his last speech - i mean it would be great if we could see the whole thing rather than this tiny clip.

[hobartia]

and the world would have been better off if they had been left to continue to do so.

[TokyoZeplin]

Yes, because raping and murdering random civilians is fair and just. Definitely.

[Kyoko019]

Mishima has a a good point about modern day thinking. Today people do not think about anything but themselves and dont try to find a deeper purpose for their lives not just for themselves but for others as well.

Perhaps it is because of modernity we no longer have to strive for some deeper meaning in life.

He was a deep man and I respect the way he died.

[royaliste2000]

@Kyoko019

As he says, it's democracy.

[ComptGeorges]

@Kyoko019 ''Today people do not think about anything but themselves and dont try to find a deeper purpose for their lives not just for themselves but for others as well.'' That is true . That is exactly what you may call era of atheism, era of liberal capitalism, era of democracy or era of individualism. I prefer to call modern age ''the age of narcissism'' by ''The Culture of Narcissism'' of Christopher Lasch. That is modern society. I am from the Europe, but i understand Mr Mishima words.

[NINPARACADUTISTA]

YUKIO MISHIMA the greatest HERO

"...That morning's training in handling a parachute....My day had been full to the brim of the body and of action".

[tifla82]

A modern Hero!

[21SeekingHonor12]

You are not worthy to watch this or even think of the samurai.

[andy7666]

And you are? How arrogant.

[21SeekingHonor12]

I said that out of stupidity. I am trying to change my ways.

[thudds]

worst gameshow ever!

just kidding, thanks for uploading. I viewed a doco on him a while back. Shall have to read one of the books from this authentic character.

[ahuizotl8]

I understand Mishima in the most complete way. It was the true warrior spirit what he was trying to rescue from foreing influence that only allienates It was great the love for his country and for the true and pure spirit of the warrior. It is not common that a westerner would understand such a concept that the samurai had attained and the ancient warriors in Anahuac practiced in every day life. Such purity of heart terrorizes the western mentality.

[MithrasAtDusk]

You're right about the modern West, but the warrior spirit is not foreign to the classical West at all. The Germanic tribes, Greece, Rome, and the Celts all practiced exactly the same concept in their everyday lives.

[willyrobinson]

yes well it manifests itself differently but yes i agree with your comments.

[vokshumana]

Hmm, when I watched this video for maybe n-th time, I noticed something: he predicted what will be great danger to liberal capitalism - the

same thing which is its great advantage - that it has no ideology, no utopia project, no ''great cause''.

[kurisensei]

Thanks for this video, I wonder if you have the rest of it?!

[operez6]

It's hard to think of an exhibitionist to hide that much his inner fellings,and for a man who showed such degree of disregard for ridicule.And yet,at the same time,to expose himself to this acusations by western merchants by writing the things he did:it does't seem to me as the best strategy for someone who don't want to get out of the closet.

[operez6]

To start with,no body in Japan think's Mishima was a fag.They interpret the homosexuality of Conffesions,as a literary resource to express alienation,and so on.You can't find any witness(how much you want to find many,don't you),and you have made many efforts to do so(ask Natham),who says that he knew of some kind of homosexual relationship or behaviour by Mishima.Everbody who knew him think he was no gay.

[operez6]

(a utilitarian,as they call yourselves,but you are being used)and who is heroic,that he is a fag,that they have have been a band of tremendously brave fags running on horseback.Why do you repeat that so much?Suggesting that,hopefully,braveness is just a form of fagotness,of masochist fagotness:to the hell with all that rubbish.Eppur si muove("And yet it moves",Galileo).

[operez6]

In Confessions of a Mask,homosexulity is used just as a resourse to express the same that Herman Hesse does in Demian,with the relationship between Sinclair and Demian.This is also the case with Fight Club,and the relationship of Tyler Durden and the other fellow.They always have been the same guy.All them are developement stories,of personal growth.

[fidsarogfigaro]

homophobes will resort to anything to deny that an author they admire could possibly be gay

[operez6]

I'm no homophobe,not at all:the only homophobes are the merchants who enjoy remembering all the time,time and again,their idea that not just Mishima but also the greeks,Alexander the great and ,if posible,anyone who's not a merchant(a utilitarian,

[AMPDTcyber]

the matter of death for Mishima was beyound the politics

if you people get more into his works, and find their beauty, you would understand perfectly the reason for what he said and did

[JLDoggard]

Exactly, AMPDTcyber, at last an intelligent comment!

[JLDoggard]

Makes me alugh at all the people making stupid and sweeping generalisations about Japan from the example of one man. haters should shut up and listen to what he says, or piss off.

[taruho89452]

Is economy Korean safe?

It doesn't entreat.

[PowerofGeneration]

So what?? You Japanese didn't really reflect on what you did in WW2. You know why hirohito and the other war criminals were alive after the war?? Becuase Jap dealt with USA. Jap is not allowed to make war. Please think how terrible Jap's imperialism. I am not embarrassing myself. Get your head before leaving a shit.

[PowerofGeneration]

This guy is the most stupid idiot who hoped the reborn of Japanese imperialism I've ever seen.

[SomeoneFin]

You should read about things before writing about them.

[heavymetalme]

You should learn English before you comment.

[PowerofGeneration]

You should know how terrible he is.

[PowerofGeneration]

Thank you for letting me know my bad English.

[kaminawa]

it's a good thing someone preserve this video until youtube came out...hehe

I was his fan even though he is a homosexual...

when you read his novels, it's like looking in through a colorful painting, the story is very detailed and artistic...

i guess his sexuality thus help in his style of writing...^_^

[vokshumana]

Japan lost only one war in its history, and it was the best thing that happened to Japan.

[kentan2202]

mishima is the man

[operez6]

How do you know,cunt?

[operez6]

How do you know?

[spaceshipsallover]

May you rest in peace, Yukio.

[VinoNero87]

Honour to the last samurai Yukio Mishima.

His exemple is still bright like the sun.

Greetings from Italy

[strangelet33]

@VinoNero87 you missundertand it dude samurais are not cowards so they are not fascists either

[thinazzabird]

So Mishima killed himself because the Constitution called for a weak japan, but no one wants a strong Japan. People want to like Japan because it is very Japanese, which makes it in a certain sense simple. The Japanese are fortunate to be able to look at themselves through a great man or great fool like Mishima. Consider the plight of Americans, who live with their National Security Council which has slammed two planes into The World Trade Center. It's a terrible dishonor for the proud whites

[Soldatoflife]

I wonder if doing so among people in the army was the best of choices. The army is supposed to defend the country and change things, but it's the people, those in numbers that probably could have changed things more. The call for journalists was certainly something that brought some light to the public, and he seemed to have said quite a few speaches. In the end, I have only seen the movie, so I'll read his books and think a little more on this after some digesting of all of this.

[longestyard2007]

It annoys us that vulgar, low level, shallow, childish and uneducated Chinks like you always appear wherever everyone is discussing Japan's stuff.

This is not the place where the scum of the earth like you can come to. Fuck off!

[JeriGonz]

there is too much emphasis on the idea of dying for a cause. How about living for a cause. It certain situations, it is easier to commit suicide than rather confront your challenges head-on

[spqromanus]

Was this really his final speech or was it his final interview?

[TSURUGIpass]

It is a speech just before the seppuku definitely.

It is done as planned that a speech is ignored.

And he carried out the seppuku that was a dream of ten years.

[chopperhausen]

Yukio Mishima kill himself with the harakiri

metod. So, this make of him an really modern samuray of our era.

[NihilAdmirari]

Where's the rest!?! It's cruel just to post this and leave!

[tigernumberone]

such a potent and powerful intellect!

[friendsofthefruitsof]

do you understand? really? why do you think it is a joke? he laid his life out. perhaps you dont accept it but it was offered in a serious gesture.

[makokun9]

No one doubts his was the ultimate proof of nationalism... But in the end, besides the shock and the sorrow of an outstanding writer, what good did his suicide do for Japanese society? What a waste of talent!

[friendsofthefruitsof]

well to "join the JApanese Literary tradition, or many "traditions" here Suicide was a final gesture of semi-permanence, Perhaps since he had just finished the Sea of Fertility he wanted to re-new his life just like Honda's Little Lover.

[operez6]

Mishima has nothing against waste,waste for the Body but not for the Espirit,waste for the economy but gain for the espirit.These days, when you have a complete commercilisation of reality,the represion of the espirit is also complete.Maybe that's why you have nihilism and alienation.Read Bataille and Baudrillard's"Symbolic exchange and death".

[ahuizotl8]

That is right!!

[decasgr]

Rest in peace Yukio! thanks a lot for the video!

[takakazushin]

桜の花は最早君一人だけでした。あの美しい日本と言う国は、今、­靖国で休眠中です。貴殿も今しばらく安らかにお眠り下さい。必ず­目覚めさせます。

[harunosaiten]

great!!

[ordaboy]

wheres the rest of it!?!??

[9876uhn]

Thank You !!!!!