yes, you're right, I sucked this statement, the word is epitaph ;) I'm learning, I'm in mid-life (crisis) but still learning ;) It's good for me that individual expressions on internet have no value or binding commitments ;)
If any needs a copy of Yukio Mishimas last speech before his suicide, I would be happy to send you a copy from Henry Scott Stokes biography. Just send me a message.
do sometimes people still do hara-kiri like yukio mishima? do the japanese still see it as an honorable thing? do they always have someone cut off their head?
@Katsumotothesamurai Katsumotohesamurai! I am supprised of you. It is nice to talk to you again, but I am disipointed that you didn't know the atmospher of Japanese thought. What right do I have to say about Japanese thought though?......I am not even Japanese.....Though I study their culture and try to understand their thoughts.
I've been a huge fan of this guy's prose for years, and for I while I read everything I could get my hands on. Saw Oe give a lecture. I even made it through the noh plays and most of the Sea of Fertility books before the spell wore off. After all of that, I don't think there's anything heroic about the way he died. I don't think he ever came to terms with the horrors that motivated him in the first place, and I think it's fucking tragic the way he imploded under the weight of his own genius.
There is a interesting biography about Mishima, written by Henry Scott Stokes. According to this book the "gang" did a general hostage (Kanetoshi Mashita) and a group of soldiers tried to rescue him. They were expelled by the coups of the sword ported by Mishima (none of the soldiers or officials was wounded with gravity). Two of the members of Tatenokai survive. What happen to them? I don´t know. Maybe they maintained their believes in a rebirth of the fascim and the nihilism in Japan.
I believe the 2nd in command cut off Mishima's head, the 3rd in command cut off the 2nd in commands head. However the 3rd in command tried to commit seppuku but failed.
Thank you. A rational answer. However I just read somewhere that someone from outside (a policeman?) apparently attempted to stop all this and was killed by the gang.
You're welcome. That's quite an interesting view to the account of Mishima's death. I apologise I do not not the full detail of Mishima's suicide. I am dooing a presentation on Mishima, Yukio for my University assessment. Where did you read that?
There is a interesting biography about Mishima, written by Henry Scott Stokes. According to this book the "gang" did a general hostage (Kanetoshi Mashita) and a group of soldiers tried to rescue him. They were expelled by the coups of the sword ported by Mishima (none of the soldiers or officials was wounded with gravity). Two of the members of Tatenokai survive. What happen to them? I don´t know. Maybe they maintained their believes in a rebirth of the fascim and the nihilism in Japan.
Mr. Mishima is a true hero and his contribution to the world can never be achieved by others. A real artist who has diversified into many many different areas. His writings are well known in the world. If he didn't die at the age of 45, definitely he will be the second Japanese to win Nobel Prize. I am not a Japanes but by refering to his books I know he is the greatest artist in the world. Refering to what he has done, I know this guy is a true hero for Japanese.
Funny thing about these majority lowlys...they always think their FEW CENTS are worth anything...AlWAYS ON THE SIDE..making their worthless comments..We have words for people like that...COWARDS..
Wow this bondurango really knows what he's talking about..I AM IMPRESSED..TYPICAL ignorant white MAGGOT!!!Hahahaha....Why don't you go back to your daughter,he's waiting for you..you DEGENERATE trying hard white baboon..hehehe.WE ARE ALL IMPRESSED with your INSIGHTS...real admirable...
Well, no one could ever accuse Mishima of being insensitive, right? 5th ranked, eh? Wow, lots of depth & sensitivity in that comment. Care to explain in depth how the kendo rankings work? Also, if you're going to question my standards, then try holding yourself accountable. So, please, go into depth & sensitivity & tell us how Mishima came by that ranking or else admit that you are the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. Now, how's that for in-depth, sensitive criticism?
A contradiction, he grew up pussy whipped in a military family. As a soldier, he was about as authentic as one of the Village People. He was a closet gay, exhibitionist, reactionary, chickenhawk & by all accounts a lousy athlete & a piss poor swordsman. Even his ritual suicide was botched. This samaurai stuff only obscures his talent as, perhaps, the only successful writer of 20th century erotic existentialism. On that score, he triumphed over his left & right wing, European contemporaries.
A contradiction? Mishima's suicide was the epitome of his erotic, spiritual fantasy.
His synthesis of vaintiy and nationalism into an aesthetic harmony was the essence of his work If read "Patriotism" he explores this concept quite clearly. His duality is not a contradiction it's his uniqueness. Mishima was a japanese renaissaince man who's death was the culmination of his lifelong romantic obssesion. It means just has much as his literature, IT WAS NOT A FACADE.
Sweet, after you have written some of the best literature ever written and died by your own hand (like a man), for your beliefs, then your words may have some worth. Not today.
Fantastic writer and personage, embelmatic of the Samurai warrior spirit and its fight against the disease of modernism. More like Japans answer to Ernst Junger.
The nickname in the childhood of Mishima is "ao-byoutan"(blue gourd).
No sense of exercise and is unhealthy.
It was a young man of 20 years old at the time of the end of the war, but it was the poor literary youth that it was not interested in war and Bushido without becoming a soldier.
He certainly didn´t´"choose" "fascism" as style. You can hardly speak of "fascism" in his case, if you know, what you are talking of. You can say he liked this or that, but it simply makes no sense to use this word at all. It says a lot though nothing - bound to Italian movement of Mussolini. At least problematic in ANY other use. So better say what you mean or say nothing - which is useful in every situation. Don´t befriend with the vague! :-)
His drama of "My friend Hittler" hints the end of Mishima. It is about Ernst Julius Rohm'SA and "Night of the Long Knives".
Mishima also loved Visconti's "The Damned".It also depicted SA's young gay and Rohm's death."Tristan und Isolde" was used in the scene of Rohm's death like "Yukoku".
D'Annunzio also had a lot of influences to Mishima not only in the style of the fascism but also In the style of literature.
Mishima also yearned to Byron's private force and his Dramatic death.
Just wanted to thank you for the Yukio Mishima videos you've provided. I only recently became interested in him when I came across the Paul Schrader movie purely by chance, and seeing him live is a great addition to simply reading about him. Absolutely fascinating, so once again I thank you.
Mishima was a great Icon but a martyr to a world that moved on with the harsh strict traditions. He is both remembered for his work and suicide. The world that knew him was shock and stunned that Mishima had the Balls to commit that suicide but then again the world thought he was a fool to waste his own life where as he could still be charished if he was still alive and still continue to write and discuss his idealism. He did proved his point in hirikiri but then again he is a fool in suicide!
Un saludo a todos, solo para hacer mencion que en Mexico es ampliamente reconocido el sensei Mishimas como un verdadero guerrero y genio un nacionalista y tradicionalista exelente y un ejemplo como mucho mas un saludo
By killing himself he it made him more or less of a legend, however, I think that he could have accomplished much more if he were still alive. Same with Thich Quang Duc, I think that he could have done more by staying alive than just lighting himself on fire.
mishima loved the idea of being a warrior, he boxed, lifted, always without a shirt, his vane indeed, gold chain too. from what i hear about his suicide his second wasn't too good. didn't take his head with one struck, that is fucking nasty!!!!!!! I do love his books, regardless if people think he's a pervert. who says he's gay? he had a wife.
he stood 5'1, had balls to disembowle himself, or stupidity to some of you.
Exactly - Oscar Wilde was also married with two children but no-one questions his homosexuality (although, like Mishima, his wife didn't exactly cry it from the rooftops). And for all the "Mishima was a samurai" delusionists out there, the fact he was gay needn't even detract from their little fantasy. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and most of the Tokugawa shoguns (including Ieyasu) all had male lovers. Big deal.
The video opens with the concluding track on the Phillip Glass soundtrack for the film; the track is entitled "F104: Epilogue from Sun and Steel." It is then followed by the second track from the score, entitled "November 25: Morning."
Mishima, despite his talents & intentions, came to live a ridiculous life. They ridiculed him on the day of his suicide. What could an elite warlike code of honor have to do with modern commercial democratic Japan? It was absurd. He should have read his Tocqueville, & Nietzsche more carefully. It's also hard to put aside his obvious vanity. When we consider such great men as Flaubert, Stendhal,& Dostoevsky, it is impossible to take him seriously.
sorry for the belated information this year it was held in the Toshima-Ku city center in Ikkebukuro. It was well attended and a great ceremony and service. I scour papers and web sites to find out about it. It is usually printed in the English yomiuri paper yearly on calender for the week. 500~ attended this year too.
Wow, your video has a lot of interesting material :)... I haven't seem before the pictures of the bodies after seppuku u_u I admire Mishima Yukio, and I wish I could have know some more about Hiraoka Kimitake. Mishima was a genious, he wanted his death mean something, he was triying to send a message to his country. That message is still not understood. His last words were "I think they didn't understand (me) well"
Anyway, for many people not related to the way of thinking in Japan, all about Mishima, specially his ideas about the Tatenokai and death, can be taken as something rough, crazy, sadistic... It's hard to understand and I guess we will never know the entire truth of his heart.
perhaps he wanted to be reincarnated. Considering he went all out into his books and the last set was the Sea of Fertility tetrology dealing with re-incarnation perhaps he thought he'd come back. Unfortunately there have been no great writers to surface since Abe Kobo. (Unfortunately the world is aware of muramkami the hack so dont bother replying with comments about his drivel)
Mishima was an artist obsessed with the imagery of traditional Japan and he used these images to relate to the tragedy of Japanese life and it's destructive path towards consumer culture at that time. He was also incredibly narcissistic and some of his sword skills look a bit rough even to my inexpert eye.You just call him a samurai hoping that that your broad interpretation encompasses you fanaticism as well. While I am similarly fascinated I am uninterested in that kind of demagoguery.
You seem to know what you are talking about. I meanyou seehim differently and I think you are right. But I think he was right in what drove him in so far as Japan straying from its cultural roots. I don't like the world wide americanization. I think Japan was the first place where we saw this. One thing I do not understand he is VERY Big in the spanish speaking countries. In fact I first learned of him as a child seeing a film in Mexico on an educational channel about him.
At that time Japan was more British/ french German-icized! the fast food culture did not happen till it happened in America first! the chairs and driving and arts,,, were begun in the Meiji Restoration. Japanese Govt and meal times and driving habits are British. Medicine is german...
Even I could be a Samurai...but than I should lapse into silence. For reason that I have internet, I am just a littel Samurai:) Like sad F. Nietzsche: book warrior:)
Thanks, no! I live in Marxist country (Communist Parties...). So I need something different, more individual- like Mishima or Nietzsche. Heidegger will be Ok as too:)
Just because government says it is one thing does not necessarily mean it is. And besides, I thought "Western" individuality was one of the main things Mishima had problems with.... Did not he prefer the communal ties of "traditional Japan" etc etc?
At the first we must ask: what is Samurai's for each of us? You see this phenomena like past (historical) socium group, which now not exist. But I am not agree with this sort interpretation. There is other option much more importent- that it was Way Of Life. And no metter when you live, at XIV c., XX c. or XXI c. I think exactly about this talking Mishima (Great Samurai Symbol).
Yet more fascist-esque thought. Repudiate materialism, and see the subject as self-fulfilling. I expect nothing less. Mishima was not a "samurai" he was an author with authoritarian political commitments. If Mishima was a samurai, then I'm the Ard Ri Alban.
Don't waste your breath, Doolkrank. BudaLT is obviously an illiterate, uneducated, sad little man who likes pretending to be a samurai just like his hero, Mishima.
As to all British people looking ugly and the women looking like fat cows, we also have MANY illegal Eastern Europeans in England (including Lithuanians) in England and most of the women are greasy, lardy swamp-donkeys with moustaches. No wonder you fantasise about muscular Japanese gays...they're far more attractive than your own women!! XXX
Illegal East Europeans? You showing your knowledge:) From when Lithuanians are illegal in EU if Lithuania are part of EU? //Every weekend drunk, british mans fly to Vilnius to see lithuanians womans, but dealers give tham chep russian prostitutes. Than they coming back to Great Britain with nice gift (ill):))
BudaLT, you are a truly sad little cretin. You can't possibly know what the samurai represent because A: they haven't existed (except in fiction) for over 100 years and B: you're from Lithuania, a country not famous for anything except providing Hitler's SS with some of it's more brutal concentration camp guards.
Even if we want see Mishima like a Samurai, its not possible, because he was touch by Shame Culture- West Culture! But he was good artist incarnate Samurai ethics simbolism.
No, we can't see Mishima as a "samurai", because they ceased to exist by 1876. If you actually read history and social theory instead of deluding yourself with these simplistically bullshit culturalist arguments you may come to realise that Mishima clung to the idea of the mythical golden age, like all Fascists do, for political reasons. Don't bore us with your tired Orientalist garbage, please.
Just finished reading about this man and I do not understand the hero worship surrounding him. Highly flawed individual whose biggest accomplishment was committing suicide after a lifetime of dreaming of suicide. He was no more a samarai than John Wayne was a cowboy. If anything, an admitted coward.
Dear Indiqis, your post was highly refreshing after most of the illogical, right-wing trash one sees on the Mishima sites. I enjoy reading his books but agree with your summing up of his character entirely. He dodged being drafted into the army in WWII by faking TB for God's sake....how can he be described as a hero or samurai symbol ("simbol" if you're a moron like budaLT)?
PPS/ BudaLT, you made fun of an earlier Mishima critic (Kalabandoo) for having some porn in his favourites folder. I just looked at YOUR favourites and loved the "Kaho Kasumi" naughty office cleaner video ("oooh look, you can see her nipple when she bends down"). "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" (Old English saying.... don't know if it translates well into Serbo-Croat).
Don't worry to much. I know that for British people Erotism is big problem. So why your nation is so ugly and womans look fat like cows. But for Samurais and normal people beautiful body is not tabu. Unfortunately, I guess you can't separate erotism and porno. Well you British:)
PS/ I've actually lived in Japan and I agree wholeheartedly with you about modern Japanese society. BudaLT (who, judging by his appalling English, sounds like he's never been outside of Eastern Europe) will probably need a big dictionary to find out what a "militarist order" is.
Don't waste tour breath Doolkrank. Mishima was at least a very cultured man of letters whilst budaLT is just an illiterate cretin. The only thing they have in common is arseholes....Mishima enjoyed buggering them and budaLT talks out of his.
In this case "ethic(al) order" seems to mean authoritarianism couched in samurai mythology. And it is not only about "personal responsibility", when one attempts to make national policy from this basis. Mishima was outspoken on policy matters, a very public fugure. If Mishima and his ilk had their way they would like to return to the militarist order. Too bad if your not a member of the ruling elite. And also, contemporay Japan is the poster-child of MODERNITY, not simple Americanism.
No, for real samurai at first exactly go "personal responsibility". But as we see Mishima was more political and cultural person than samurai. And second: is Americanism are not child of HUMAN BEING?
I'm not sure what you mean.... As if the ruling caste in Feudal Japan, i.e. the Samurai, or Bushi if you like, were not political... And as for the last comment about "Americanism", however lously you seem to define the term, all cultural products; including all -isms, as well as modernity, are products of humans, so what?
"Child" I taked like metaphor of maturity. Of course Americanism is part of human creation, but how deep and what quality of human being he response? He seem like a teenager doing problems for adults.
If Mishima Yukio was a German, his political exhibitionism would have rightly been seen as resurgent Nazism and denounced. Mishima, enveloped in romanticised Orientalist imagery is louded as "a modern day samurai hero" by the dim-witted Westerner and the zeolous neo-fascist, ultra-nationalists in Japan. Just look at the footage of his right-wing para-military, brown(and black)-shirt-esque Tatenokai, and listen to the appropriately authoritarian music.
Nazi have politic ideologe. People was to week take responsibility for they'r own. Mishima is exaple of personal way and responsibility. Personal responsibility for your life and ethics order! That is very different from Nazi direction.
Oh and by the way Sandradunska, Mishima's decapitated head is not grinning. According to the autopsy reports, he had nearly bitten off his own tongue due to the excrutiating agony of disembowelling himself (but at least he had the forsight to shove cotton wool up his anus to prevent himself from defecating in his pants because of the pain....mmmm, a true samurai's death).
Aleck Schmidt, The Japanese completely defeated the Russians in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and, as someone with a very German name, I shouldn't boast too loudly about Russian military superiority if I were you as I seem to remember the Russian's occupying Berlin in 1945.
Eeek they did it wrong, is there not supose to be one band of skin keeping there heads on? Or did the police just remove the heads for documentation in those photos?
Go better to your dictionary..... the words you are struggling for are are spelt "symbol", "seppuku" and I presume that "Merlin" Manson is Marilyn Manson (a Japanese "simbol"...er, how exactly?).
You'd love November 25th at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo each year.....full of right wing nut-jobs like you pretending that Mishima is a "modern samurai simbol" instead of a masochistic, gay exhibitionist. I'll just stick with my "favorites lesbians pussys videos" as you suggest.
I had never seen actual photos of the seppuku before. I didn't realize they were available to the public. That was very sobering... it certainly bursts the bubble of romanticism surrounding the whole event, to see the man's head just sitting there on the ground. A powerful image. Good work assembling the video, by the way.
A MAN AMONGST THE MODERN WORLD....the most effective revolt would be one which challenged the modernistic atomisation - the splitting up of all integrated units into their smallest parts for the sake of homogenising them politically and/or economically - promoting a reintegration of cultural elements or categories in a harmonious and authentic whole.
I've been collecting material on him for quite a while. I've got plenty of unused video footage and photos, and may make a longer, updated version of this video at some point. Either that or a second tribute. But not for a while...
WOW...Thank you for the video. I've been curious about true reason behind his death, is it really legitimate reason or it's just his obsession with death from his childhood.
Contrary to most of your comments, I think he's a radical paranoid.
chickenshing 4 months ago
@chickenshing
more than that, he was suicide zero, nothing created, just died, this is the epiphany of selfishness, egoism. Still I scorn such individuals
darektrydent 3 months ago
@darektrydent epitome? learn to english before trying to use more advanced words.
pararoids 2 months ago
@pararoids
yes, you're right, I sucked this statement, the word is epitaph ;) I'm learning, I'm in mid-life (crisis) but still learning ;) It's good for me that individual expressions on internet have no value or binding commitments ;)
darektrydent 2 months ago
he would have been so pissed off about the guy who played him in the movie being no where near as ripped as he was.
andrelebaron 4 months ago
Rei !
rkaiserpt 5 months ago in playlist Yukio mishima
Hello.
If any needs a copy of Yukio Mishimas last speech before his suicide, I would be happy to send you a copy from Henry Scott Stokes biography. Just send me a message.
MrJacobfromDenmark 5 months ago
do sometimes people still do hara-kiri like yukio mishima? do the japanese still see it as an honorable thing? do they always have someone cut off their head?
Katsumotothesamurai 7 months ago
@Katsumotothesamurai no
LittleGodOfGods 7 months ago
@Katsumotothesamurai Katsumotohesamurai! I am supprised of you. It is nice to talk to you again, but I am disipointed that you didn't know the atmospher of Japanese thought. What right do I have to say about Japanese thought though?......I am not even Japanese.....Though I study their culture and try to understand their thoughts.
SeanShannohan 6 months ago
I've been a huge fan of this guy's prose for years, and for I while I read everything I could get my hands on. Saw Oe give a lecture. I even made it through the noh plays and most of the Sea of Fertility books before the spell wore off. After all of that, I don't think there's anything heroic about the way he died. I don't think he ever came to terms with the horrors that motivated him in the first place, and I think it's fucking tragic the way he imploded under the weight of his own genius.
davevontexas 3 years ago
There is a interesting biography about Mishima, written by Henry Scott Stokes. According to this book the "gang" did a general hostage (Kanetoshi Mashita) and a group of soldiers tried to rescue him. They were expelled by the coups of the sword ported by Mishima (none of the soldiers or officials was wounded with gravity). Two of the members of Tatenokai survive. What happen to them? I don´t know. Maybe they maintained their believes in a rebirth of the fascim and the nihilism in Japan.
RibasVictor 3 years ago
The Iaido sequence starting at 0:46 is (nor very well done) Maegiri from Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū ( 無双直伝英信流 )
theolifant 3 years ago
Iaido is very indivdualised, and at one owns pace. It's all open to interpretation.
Mishima898 3 years ago
RESPECT from Italy. RIP
mediapervert 3 years ago 10
On this the anniversary of Yukio Mishima's transformation into a headless god, I thank you again for this video.
fakefalsephoney 3 years ago
Quest'uomo era realmente perfetto, l'Übermensch che vaticinava Nietzsche.
Mishima sensei aiutami a vestire quell'uniforme, aiutami a trovare la forza per affrontare le sfide dell'esistenza.
Hai lasciato uno stuolo di allievi che ti amano e ti onorano.
libaneseag 3 years ago
that was not my question. read it again.
pasfresh123 3 years ago
Interesting paradox, he was narcissistic megalomaniac and striving to be what he is not, at the same time. But it is not contradictory.
vokshumana 3 years ago
Oh my god,did he behead himself?
TransformalinVitae 3 years ago
His assistant cut his head off.
vokshumana 3 years ago
Thank you for the answer.
I thought Seppuku was just "ordinary" suicide,but now i realize it is not.
TransformalinVitae 3 years ago
how come there were two heads on the floor?
pasfresh123 3 years ago
I believe the 2nd in command cut off Mishima's head, the 3rd in command cut off the 2nd in commands head. However the 3rd in command tried to commit seppuku but failed.
Mishima898 3 years ago
Thank you. A rational answer. However I just read somewhere that someone from outside (a policeman?) apparently attempted to stop all this and was killed by the gang.
pasfresh123 3 years ago
You're welcome. That's quite an interesting view to the account of Mishima's death. I apologise I do not not the full detail of Mishima's suicide. I am dooing a presentation on Mishima, Yukio for my University assessment. Where did you read that?
Mishima898 3 years ago
There is a interesting biography about Mishima, written by Henry Scott Stokes. According to this book the "gang" did a general hostage (Kanetoshi Mashita) and a group of soldiers tried to rescue him. They were expelled by the coups of the sword ported by Mishima (none of the soldiers or officials was wounded with gravity). Two of the members of Tatenokai survive. What happen to them? I don´t know. Maybe they maintained their believes in a rebirth of the fascim and the nihilism in Japan.
RibasVictor 3 years ago
Mr. Mishima is a true hero and his contribution to the world can never be achieved by others. A real artist who has diversified into many many different areas. His writings are well known in the world. If he didn't die at the age of 45, definitely he will be the second Japanese to win Nobel Prize. I am not a Japanes but by refering to his books I know he is the greatest artist in the world. Refering to what he has done, I know this guy is a true hero for Japanese.
kinlungwong 3 years ago 3
Well...he's gone...and you're still alive...YOU ARE AN OPEN BOOK...hahaha.we have words for people like you--PATHETIC!!!
koldexx21 3 years ago
Funny thing about these majority lowlys...they always think their FEW CENTS are worth anything...AlWAYS ON THE SIDE..making their worthless comments..We have words for people like that...COWARDS..
koldexx21 3 years ago
Majority of you are NOTHING compared to this guy...In the meantime..come-up with your FEW CENTS...and RAISE your lowly self-esteems.hahaha...
koldexx21 3 years ago
Wow this bondurango really knows what he's talking about..I AM IMPRESSED..TYPICAL ignorant white MAGGOT!!!Hahahaha....Why don't you go back to your daughter,he's waiting for you..you DEGENERATE trying hard white baboon..hehehe.WE ARE ALL IMPRESSED with your INSIGHTS...real admirable...
koldexx21 3 years ago
I went to Japan all the way from America to visit Ichigaya, the military base where he committed seppuku. Kare o zettai wasurenai yo.
7111nailuj 3 years ago 2
Well, no one could ever accuse Mishima of being insensitive, right? 5th ranked, eh? Wow, lots of depth & sensitivity in that comment. Care to explain in depth how the kendo rankings work? Also, if you're going to question my standards, then try holding yourself accountable. So, please, go into depth & sensitivity & tell us how Mishima came by that ranking or else admit that you are the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. Now, how's that for in-depth, sensitive criticism?
bondurango 3 years ago
A contradiction, he grew up pussy whipped in a military family. As a soldier, he was about as authentic as one of the Village People. He was a closet gay, exhibitionist, reactionary, chickenhawk & by all accounts a lousy athlete & a piss poor swordsman. Even his ritual suicide was botched. This samaurai stuff only obscures his talent as, perhaps, the only successful writer of 20th century erotic existentialism. On that score, he triumphed over his left & right wing, European contemporaries.
bondurango 3 years ago
A contradiction? Mishima's suicide was the epitome of his erotic, spiritual fantasy.
His synthesis of vaintiy and nationalism into an aesthetic harmony was the essence of his work If read "Patriotism" he explores this concept quite clearly. His duality is not a contradiction it's his uniqueness. Mishima was a japanese renaissaince man who's death was the culmination of his lifelong romantic obssesion. It means just has much as his literature, IT WAS NOT A FACADE.
forth1102 3 years ago
Sweet, after you have written some of the best literature ever written and died by your own hand (like a man), for your beliefs, then your words may have some worth. Not today.
Daerkell 3 years ago
Fantastic writer and personage, embelmatic of the Samurai warrior spirit and its fight against the disease of modernism. More like Japans answer to Ernst Junger.
ClaidheamhSoluis 3 years ago
great GREAT writer. should have won the nobel prize
agnessorel 3 years ago 2
Japans answer to Oscar Wilde.
surrealsan 3 years ago
he has great respect for the katana
KTSEROV2351 3 years ago
i think peepo made fun of mishima-san i do respect him imensely and as a matter of fact was quite an inspiration to me as well
KTSEROV2351 3 years ago
4:29-- Nationalism, particularly Japanese nationalism, is made of fail.
TariqAlSuave 3 years ago
darn they took it off....
nvaline 3 years ago
4:27
guess he won
eViLmOnKeYm00se 3 years ago
such twilight and confusion!
thaiescapades 3 years ago
The nickname in the childhood of Mishima is "ao-byoutan"(blue gourd).
No sense of exercise and is unhealthy.
It was a young man of 20 years old at the time of the end of the war, but it was the poor literary youth that it was not interested in war and Bushido without becoming a soldier.
TSURUGIpass 3 years ago
For you all: "Mishima or the vision of Empty", by Marguerite Yourcenaur, one of the greatest writers of '900.
It's an essential book to understand Yukio Mishima.
GiadBalGia 3 years ago
It's better to die for something than to live for nothing.
gen. G.S.Patton
GiadBalGia 3 years ago 14
Just be very careful in deciding what is important enough for you to die for.
pagano60 3 years ago 3
Shibumi2007:
you trully understand Mishima.
Respect.
Kshatriiyas 4 years ago
long live the sovereignty of Japan and Asia, long live true freedom, long live true freedom long live true freedom.
DumbAssRacist 4 years ago
Thank you.
fakefalsephoney 4 years ago
His behavior is only due to a pure sense of beauty.
All of his behavior were acting to make him a legend.
Mishima was not military man. Mishima was not able to live in the mechanistic management system of military forces.
He is not a revolutionist either. His behavior did the opposite as popular psychology.
He chose the fascism as the style of beauty.
And, he became the pioneer of the fascism in Japan like D'Annunzio in Italy.
shibumi2007 4 years ago
He certainly didn´t´"choose" "fascism" as style. You can hardly speak of "fascism" in his case, if you know, what you are talking of. You can say he liked this or that, but it simply makes no sense to use this word at all. It says a lot though nothing - bound to Italian movement of Mussolini. At least problematic in ANY other use. So better say what you mean or say nothing - which is useful in every situation. Don´t befriend with the vague! :-)
Chiocolata 3 years ago
His drama of "My friend Hittler" hints the end of Mishima. It is about Ernst Julius Rohm'SA and "Night of the Long Knives".
Mishima also loved Visconti's "The Damned".It also depicted SA's young gay and Rohm's death."Tristan und Isolde" was used in the scene of Rohm's death like "Yukoku".
D'Annunzio also had a lot of influences to Mishima not only in the style of the fascism but also In the style of literature.
Mishima also yearned to Byron's private force and his Dramatic death.
shibumi2007 4 years ago
Hi there,
Just wanted to thank you for the Yukio Mishima videos you've provided. I only recently became interested in him when I came across the Paul Schrader movie purely by chance, and seeing him live is a great addition to simply reading about him. Absolutely fascinating, so once again I thank you.
honourbridge 4 years ago
Mishima was a great Icon but a martyr to a world that moved on with the harsh strict traditions. He is both remembered for his work and suicide. The world that knew him was shock and stunned that Mishima had the Balls to commit that suicide but then again the world thought he was a fool to waste his own life where as he could still be charished if he was still alive and still continue to write and discuss his idealism. He did proved his point in hirikiri but then again he is a fool in suicide!
digipeeper 4 years ago
Thank you to remind us one of the greatest Personalities of Humanity!
horsebackarchers 4 years ago
Un saludo a todos, solo para hacer mencion que en Mexico es ampliamente reconocido el sensei Mishimas como un verdadero guerrero y genio un nacionalista y tradicionalista exelente y un ejemplo como mucho mas un saludo
CondAlucardmx 4 years ago
I can stomach alot but i dont think children should be allowed to watch this video!
miraoister 4 years ago
Energie hat immer ihren Preis.Entscheidung ist die letzte Freiheit. Zen oder Unzen..Shizen?
Hanzen? Viele sind zum Leben verdammt. Einige nicht so. Trotzdem, nicht für Idioten zur Nachahmung empfohlen. Also ?? Lebt!!
soilentmichi 4 years ago
By killing himself he it made him more or less of a legend, however, I think that he could have accomplished much more if he were still alive. Same with Thich Quang Duc, I think that he could have done more by staying alive than just lighting himself on fire.
jdooz121 4 years ago
Easy for you to say.
miraoister 4 years ago 4
i have nothing against gays, however they look for evry nook and cranny to SEE WHO MIGHT, JUST MIGHT BE GAY
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
fyi: most people in japan don't care if ya gay, even in post wwII japan, your private life is YOUrs. STILL don't mean Mishima was gay
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
he may well have been gay, however he never admitted so, and his wife said he wasn't gay either.
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
Er, she wouldn't, would she? It would make her appear rather superfluous.
MockTheFools 4 years ago
little boys are often enamored with: fireman, policeman, security officers, and athletes, don't mean their gay
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
uh yeah, dudes who wear gold chains are vain, especially when they top it off with a gold bracelet and earring too.
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
mishima loved the idea of being a warrior, he boxed, lifted, always without a shirt, his vane indeed, gold chain too. from what i hear about his suicide his second wasn't too good. didn't take his head with one struck, that is fucking nasty!!!!!!! I do love his books, regardless if people think he's a pervert. who says he's gay? he had a wife.
he stood 5'1, had balls to disembowle himself, or stupidity to some of you.
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
i though it rather clear, from reading 'confessions of a mask' (admitted by mishima to be wildly autobiographical) that of COURSE the man was gay.
being openly gay in post-war japan wasn't exactly a viable option. and marrying a woman doesn't magically make one straight.
aliceofkansas 4 years ago
i read that book and he seem enamored with the waste management guy, however little boys often are and he writes from a boy's perspective.
ZabSupahJudahKODbyKT 4 years ago
Exactly - Oscar Wilde was also married with two children but no-one questions his homosexuality (although, like Mishima, his wife didn't exactly cry it from the rooftops). And for all the "Mishima was a samurai" delusionists out there, the fact he was gay needn't even detract from their little fantasy. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and most of the Tokugawa shoguns (including Ieyasu) all had male lovers. Big deal.
MockTheFools 4 years ago 3
tell me, what the music in that clip?
AleckSchmidt 4 years ago
The video opens with the concluding track on the Phillip Glass soundtrack for the film; the track is entitled "F104: Epilogue from Sun and Steel." It is then followed by the second track from the score, entitled "November 25: Morning."
Sinatra70 4 years ago
Thank you very much!
AleckSchmidt 4 years ago
Mishima, despite his talents & intentions, came to live a ridiculous life. They ridiculed him on the day of his suicide. What could an elite warlike code of honor have to do with modern commercial democratic Japan? It was absurd. He should have read his Tocqueville, & Nietzsche more carefully. It's also hard to put aside his obvious vanity. When we consider such great men as Flaubert, Stendhal,& Dostoevsky, it is impossible to take him seriously.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Mishima yukio...aishiteru!
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Ankhsnammon 4 years ago
Yukio Mishima è divino,starlight
libaneseag 4 years ago 2
Are there any events planned for November 25th this year? Any public ceremonies in Tokyo?
joel1923 4 years ago
KudanKaiKan in Kudanshita Tozai Line, it is usually listed in the English daily Yomiuri or these days you can google it!
friendsofthefruitsof 4 years ago
sorry for the belated information this year it was held in the Toshima-Ku city center in Ikkebukuro. It was well attended and a great ceremony and service. I scour papers and web sites to find out about it. It is usually printed in the English yomiuri paper yearly on calender for the week. 500~ attended this year too.
friendsofthefruitsof 4 years ago
although i am japanese, i have never seen a footage like this on TV. The Philip Grass-esque music fits so well with the footage. Good effort.
pleiotropicaction 4 years ago
too sad, the brutal history of american occupation and abuse in japan was white-washed.
Xterraman 4 years ago
Wow, your video has a lot of interesting material :)... I haven't seem before the pictures of the bodies after seppuku u_u I admire Mishima Yukio, and I wish I could have know some more about Hiraoka Kimitake. Mishima was a genious, he wanted his death mean something, he was triying to send a message to his country. That message is still not understood. His last words were "I think they didn't understand (me) well"
Malthusea 4 years ago
Anyway, for many people not related to the way of thinking in Japan, all about Mishima, specially his ideas about the Tatenokai and death, can be taken as something rough, crazy, sadistic... It's hard to understand and I guess we will never know the entire truth of his heart.
Malthusea 4 years ago
perhaps he wanted to be reincarnated. Considering he went all out into his books and the last set was the Sea of Fertility tetrology dealing with re-incarnation perhaps he thought he'd come back. Unfortunately there have been no great writers to surface since Abe Kobo. (Unfortunately the world is aware of muramkami the hack so dont bother replying with comments about his drivel)
friendsofthefruitsof 4 years ago
the music was so fitting to the movie! thanks for the upload!
Juuuuuul 4 years ago
rest in peace yukio! thanks a lot for the video
decasgr 4 years ago
To post that comment you must be in denial
zenzenakirararemasen 4 years ago
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To be a Samurai, you must be a Gay!!!!
seamasterDP 4 years ago
your an ignorant fool, for that comment i wish you death to you and your whole family.
Japanorama 4 years ago 2
Ooh.... That was very samurai like. kkk
seamasterDP 4 years ago
dumbass^
hunarf 4 years ago
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To be a genius, it helps to be gay
gabsylv 4 years ago
Mishima was an artist obsessed with the imagery of traditional Japan and he used these images to relate to the tragedy of Japanese life and it's destructive path towards consumer culture at that time. He was also incredibly narcissistic and some of his sword skills look a bit rough even to my inexpert eye.You just call him a samurai hoping that that your broad interpretation encompasses you fanaticism as well. While I am similarly fascinated I am uninterested in that kind of demagoguery.
zenzenakirararemasen 4 years ago
You seem to know what you are talking about. I meanyou seehim differently and I think you are right. But I think he was right in what drove him in so far as Japan straying from its cultural roots. I don't like the world wide americanization. I think Japan was the first place where we saw this. One thing I do not understand he is VERY Big in the spanish speaking countries. In fact I first learned of him as a child seeing a film in Mexico on an educational channel about him.
bigtimepimpin666 4 years ago 2
At that time Japan was more British/ french German-icized! the fast food culture did not happen till it happened in America first! the chairs and driving and arts,,, were begun in the Meiji Restoration. Japanese Govt and meal times and driving habits are British. Medicine is german...
friendsofthefruitsof 4 years ago
to be samurai can be a state of mind, an understanding or enlightenment. it doesnt have to be a fantasy.
ordaboy 4 years ago
Even I could be a Samurai...but than I should lapse into silence. For reason that I have internet, I am just a littel Samurai:) Like sad F. Nietzsche: book warrior:)
budaLT 4 years ago
Maybe read less Nietzsche and more Marx, just to get a bit of balance ne.
Doolkrank 4 years ago
Thanks, no! I live in Marxist country (Communist Parties...). So I need something different, more individual- like Mishima or Nietzsche. Heidegger will be Ok as too:)
budaLT 4 years ago
Just because government says it is one thing does not necessarily mean it is. And besides, I thought "Western" individuality was one of the main things Mishima had problems with.... Did not he prefer the communal ties of "traditional Japan" etc etc?
Doolkrank 4 years ago
look at the book Mishima's house it was very western! very fascinating archive of his thought patterns
friendsofthefruitsof 4 years ago
At the first we must ask: what is Samurai's for each of us? You see this phenomena like past (historical) socium group, which now not exist. But I am not agree with this sort interpretation. There is other option much more importent- that it was Way Of Life. And no metter when you live, at XIV c., XX c. or XXI c. I think exactly about this talking Mishima (Great Samurai Symbol).
budaLT 4 years ago
Yet more fascist-esque thought. Repudiate materialism, and see the subject as self-fulfilling. I expect nothing less. Mishima was not a "samurai" he was an author with authoritarian political commitments. If Mishima was a samurai, then I'm the Ard Ri Alban.
Doolkrank 4 years ago
Who knows? Maybe you are?:))
budaLT 4 years ago
No, believe me I'm not. There is a thing called material reality that gets in the way of that fantasy....
Doolkrank 4 years ago
Don't waste your breath, Doolkrank. BudaLT is obviously an illiterate, uneducated, sad little man who likes pretending to be a samurai just like his hero, Mishima.
MockTheFools 4 years ago
As to all British people looking ugly and the women looking like fat cows, we also have MANY illegal Eastern Europeans in England (including Lithuanians) in England and most of the women are greasy, lardy swamp-donkeys with moustaches. No wonder you fantasise about muscular Japanese gays...they're far more attractive than your own women!! XXX
MockTheFools 4 years ago
Illegal East Europeans? You showing your knowledge:) From when Lithuanians are illegal in EU if Lithuania are part of EU? //Every weekend drunk, british mans fly to Vilnius to see lithuanians womans, but dealers give tham chep russian prostitutes. Than they coming back to Great Britain with nice gift (ill):))
budaLT 4 years ago
BudaLT, you are a truly sad little cretin. You can't possibly know what the samurai represent because A: they haven't existed (except in fiction) for over 100 years and B: you're from Lithuania, a country not famous for anything except providing Hitler's SS with some of it's more brutal concentration camp guards.
MockTheFools 4 years ago
Go better and read Lithuania history, because you talk shit. In Lithuania never was concentration camps. Jews Gethhos- yes.
budaLT 4 years ago
Even if we want see Mishima like a Samurai, its not possible, because he was touch by Shame Culture- West Culture! But he was good artist incarnate Samurai ethics simbolism.
budaLT 4 years ago
No, we can't see Mishima as a "samurai", because they ceased to exist by 1876. If you actually read history and social theory instead of deluding yourself with these simplistically bullshit culturalist arguments you may come to realise that Mishima clung to the idea of the mythical golden age, like all Fascists do, for political reasons. Don't bore us with your tired Orientalist garbage, please.
Doolkrank 4 years ago
Just finished reading about this man and I do not understand the hero worship surrounding him. Highly flawed individual whose biggest accomplishment was committing suicide after a lifetime of dreaming of suicide. He was no more a samarai than John Wayne was a cowboy. If anything, an admitted coward.
indigis 4 years ago
I would say: ...than G.Bush & T.Blair are keepers for Peace Mission in Irac:)
budaLT 4 years ago
Dear Indiqis, your post was highly refreshing after most of the illogical, right-wing trash one sees on the Mishima sites. I enjoy reading his books but agree with your summing up of his character entirely. He dodged being drafted into the army in WWII by faking TB for God's sake....how can he be described as a hero or samurai symbol ("simbol" if you're a moron like budaLT)?
MockTheFools 4 years ago
PPS/ BudaLT, you made fun of an earlier Mishima critic (Kalabandoo) for having some porn in his favourites folder. I just looked at YOUR favourites and loved the "Kaho Kasumi" naughty office cleaner video ("oooh look, you can see her nipple when she bends down"). "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" (Old English saying.... don't know if it translates well into Serbo-Croat).
MockTheFools 4 years ago
Don't worry to much. I know that for British people Erotism is big problem. So why your nation is so ugly and womans look fat like cows. But for Samurais and normal people beautiful body is not tabu. Unfortunately, I guess you can't separate erotism and porno. Well you British:)
budaLT 4 years ago
PS/ I've actually lived in Japan and I agree wholeheartedly with you about modern Japanese society. BudaLT (who, judging by his appalling English, sounds like he's never been outside of Eastern Europe) will probably need a big dictionary to find out what a "militarist order" is.
MockTheFools 4 years ago
Don't waste tour breath Doolkrank. Mishima was at least a very cultured man of letters whilst budaLT is just an illiterate cretin. The only thing they have in common is arseholes....Mishima enjoyed buggering them and budaLT talks out of his.
MockTheFools 4 years ago
In this case "ethic(al) order" seems to mean authoritarianism couched in samurai mythology. And it is not only about "personal responsibility", when one attempts to make national policy from this basis. Mishima was outspoken on policy matters, a very public fugure. If Mishima and his ilk had their way they would like to return to the militarist order. Too bad if your not a member of the ruling elite. And also, contemporay Japan is the poster-child of MODERNITY, not simple Americanism.
Doolkrank 4 years ago
No, for real samurai at first exactly go "personal responsibility". But as we see Mishima was more political and cultural person than samurai. And second: is Americanism are not child of HUMAN BEING?
budaLT 4 years ago
I'm not sure what you mean.... As if the ruling caste in Feudal Japan, i.e. the Samurai, or Bushi if you like, were not political... And as for the last comment about "Americanism", however lously you seem to define the term, all cultural products; including all -isms, as well as modernity, are products of humans, so what?
Doolkrank 4 years ago
"Child" I taked like metaphor of maturity. Of course Americanism is part of human creation, but how deep and what quality of human being he response? He seem like a teenager doing problems for adults.
budaLT 4 years ago
If Mishima Yukio was a German, his political exhibitionism would have rightly been seen as resurgent Nazism and denounced. Mishima, enveloped in romanticised Orientalist imagery is louded as "a modern day samurai hero" by the dim-witted Westerner and the zeolous neo-fascist, ultra-nationalists in Japan. Just look at the footage of his right-wing para-military, brown(and black)-shirt-esque Tatenokai, and listen to the appropriately authoritarian music.
Doolkrank 4 years ago
Nazi have politic ideologe. People was to week take responsibility for they'r own. Mishima is exaple of personal way and responsibility. Personal responsibility for your life and ethics order! That is very different from Nazi direction.
budaLT 4 years ago
So give us one REAL example of a west culture icon in Japan instead of Merlin Manson (who you said you were joking about).
MockTheFools 4 years ago
Contemporary Japan looks like USA. Thats is the fact and exaple of what I mantion.
budaLT 4 years ago
Oh and by the way Sandradunska, Mishima's decapitated head is not grinning. According to the autopsy reports, he had nearly bitten off his own tongue due to the excrutiating agony of disembowelling himself (but at least he had the forsight to shove cotton wool up his anus to prevent himself from defecating in his pants because of the pain....mmmm, a true samurai's death).
kalabandoo 4 years ago
Go better to your favorites lesbians pussys videos:)
budaLT 4 years ago
Aleck Schmidt, The Japanese completely defeated the Russians in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and, as someone with a very German name, I shouldn't boast too loudly about Russian military superiority if I were you as I seem to remember the Russian's occupying Berlin in 1945.
Try reading a history book.
kalabandoo 4 years ago
Man who done this video realy have talant!:) Very subtile.
budaLT 4 years ago
It's ok. But russian are had defeat their 10000000 army in Mongolia in 10 days!!! Samurai are weak hahahahahaaaaa!
AleckSchmidt 4 years ago
Can anyone Tell me who is this man ??
lapatrole 5 years ago
A great novelist and nationalist.
please read Patriotism and Mishima on Hagakure.
9876uhn 5 years ago
Yes, I can tell you:) This man is Great Japanese Modern Samurai simbol. In fact nowdays Japanese simbol is Merlin Manson:)
budaLT 4 years ago
Marylin Manson is a Japanese celebrity? osou des ka?
kobe24 4 years ago
I am joking:) But its big shame on Japan, that national symbols become unrecognize. In they'r place stand west culture icons. Shame!
budaLT 4 years ago
wtf, his severed head is fuckin grinning... cool vid.
sandradunska 5 years ago
amazing.!
allezla 5 years ago
IMPRESSIVE.
Berchtesgaden 5 years ago
Eeek they did it wrong, is there not supose to be one band of skin keeping there heads on? Or did the police just remove the heads for documentation in those photos?
SidepocketPro 5 years ago
I think the heads are sitting on the floor of the office in exactly the position they were left in by Mishima's three surviving Tatenokai colleagues.
mishima1970 5 years ago
But why heads?
budaLT 4 years ago
I think, because of "sepuku":)
budaLT 4 years ago
Go better to your dictionary..... the words you are struggling for are are spelt "symbol", "seppuku" and I presume that "Merlin" Manson is Marilyn Manson (a Japanese "simbol"...er, how exactly?).
You'd love November 25th at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo each year.....full of right wing nut-jobs like you pretending that Mishima is a "modern samurai simbol" instead of a masochistic, gay exhibitionist. I'll just stick with my "favorites lesbians pussys videos" as you suggest.
kalabandoo 4 years ago
Oh you pervert!:)))
budaLT 4 years ago
I had never seen actual photos of the seppuku before. I didn't realize they were available to the public. That was very sobering... it certainly bursts the bubble of romanticism surrounding the whole event, to see the man's head just sitting there on the ground. A powerful image. Good work assembling the video, by the way.
bobertxxx 5 years ago
A MAN AMONGST THE MODERN WORLD....the most effective revolt would be one which challenged the modernistic atomisation - the splitting up of all integrated units into their smallest parts for the sake of homogenising them politically and/or economically - promoting a reintegration of cultural elements or categories in a harmonious and authentic whole.
Thank you for the beautifull vidéo!
HEIL TATENOKAI !
ALAF SAL FENA !
rubbersl 5 years ago
the music is from the film mishima, composed by phillip glass.
woodwart 5 years ago
estraordinary man
ahlan3g 5 years ago
Thank you. Where did you find all this amazing footage?
landor28 5 years ago
I've been collecting material on him for quite a while. I've got plenty of unused video footage and photos, and may make a longer, updated version of this video at some point. Either that or a second tribute. But not for a while...
mishima1970 5 years ago
What music is it?
Tzench 5 years ago
The music is from the soundtrack of the film 'Mishima'.
mishima1970 5 years ago
The most fascinating and inspiring man of the XX Century. His death was as tragically perfect as his life.
Globi666 5 years ago 2
Beautiful
farfan718 5 years ago
I WISH ME ONE DAY TO DIE LIKE MISHIMA!Juergen
A GREAT HERO
Schoefer 5 years ago
this man lived to keep beauty, art, and form alive.
mechanique 5 years ago
I don't think was an obsession to death itself, but a desire to be like a Real Samurai till the end,
Did he fail?
Eutimo 5 years ago
WOW...Thank you for the video. I've been curious about true reason behind his death, is it really legitimate reason or it's just his obsession with death from his childhood.
forestgumper 5 years ago
life imitating art, or the conclusion of life as Mishima's greatest piece of art.
cool video.
ether007 5 years ago
My own opinion is that, in Mishima's case, his mistake was to confuse life and art. This resulted in a dichotomy which doesn't really exist.
landor28 5 years ago
He was the Great Men!
A understand and divide all your thought about it =)
konekoZoi 5 years ago 2
Thank you very much for this video!!!
konekoZoi 5 years ago