Ending of 'Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters'

[plasticweapon]

this isn't roy scheider narrating.

[erydiam]

That's not really honor because honor is get over your fauls-mistakes and try to redeem himself of them with deeds... yeah sick fucking great mad loser writer !

[aridchimp]

Was he doing "Kamikaze" like a true Japanese samurai? No. He was avoiding the war.

[FuriousTealeaf]

@aridchimp Kamikaze means divine wind, you're thinking of seppuku. And the war was already over when he killed himself, in fact he formed his own private army of sorts and wanted to overthrow the government.

[aridchimp]

He worshiped men that he could never hope to understand. His death was a cowardly suicide, and nothing else.

[philglassfan]

Greatest score ever!

[strangebenhur]

@philglassfan any thing by Philip Glass is awesome!

[000079715]

The first scene was located at Koriyama City Office in " Fukushima " prefecture . All of the building in Japan denied the proposal for this scene without Koriyama City. You can see this building now . It is used as a prefecture office . Famous retiered general ,Tamogami was born in this city . Of course no relation betwieen both .

[AlHajjMalik01]

Japan has never been the same since 1868....sad actually..........

[tertommy]

Mishima...Jag-off for the ages

[ShishirYerramilli]

I see many here are admirers of Mishimi Yukio.I can understand.He contrasts powerfully with "artists" and "intellectuals" of today who talk a great game

about speaking to truth to power,helping the poor and pacifism but are so addicted their affluent lifestyle that a spartan existence itself is a horror for them.FOrget about dying

It needs be said that Mishima was rather theatrical, he admitted that he became besotted with the Right because there was no space for him on the Left.

[gabsylv]

@ShishirYerramilli Nah, he was a ***military queen****

[ShishirYerramilli]

@gabsylv He began as a gym queen.He started this warrior stuff with the basics-the physical aspect when his partner mocked his then flabby body.

It could be a symptom of "gay fascism"

Google Johann Harri and gay fascism

[fexurbis123]

Is this the same Paul Schrader who wrote the script for Taxi Driver?

[ShishirYerramilli]

@fexurbis123

Yes, in fact he decided on making a movie about Mishima after a woman told himthat a character like Travis Bickle would

naturally end succumbing to type of self destructive masculine aggression as he was lower working class.To which Schrader brought Mishima who (according to him)

suffered a very similar pathology despite being of higher social status and a different culture.

[fexurbis123]

@ShishirYerramilli I would call Mishima`s suicide something else, but I see the connection.

[MrUnidyne]

@fexurbis123Yes, the same Paul Schrader who wrote "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "Blue Collar" and "Bringing Out the Dead". One hell of a resume, no?

[fexurbis123]

@MrUnidyne Impressive resume indeed.

[MM88Influenza]

介錯は森田必勝がやって古賀靖勝が手伝っている．森田必勝が切腹­した後は古賀が介錯している．

[JaayPeey]

didn't think to bring a megaphone...?

no seriously Mishima will forever be a legend for doing what he thought was best and not simply theorizing...he lived and died by his beliefs

to quote Neil Young's song Hey Hey My My "It's better to burn out, than it is to rust..."

[utsunomiyahirotsuna]

三島由紀夫、万歳！ｘN！

[utsunomiyahirotsuna]

介錯は古賀靖勝ですかな？

[dagga36]

@mrunidyne... Indeed. Hitchcock & Spielberg perfected it, long before Schrader

[MajorRoy]

Great movie. One of the best biopics imho.

[ElectricSexPants]

Sun and Steel by Mishima is such a powerful work of art-philosophy. There was nothing tragic at all about his life. He triumphed by living and dying on his own terms. He fully deserves his mythological status.

[DarkprinX2500]

lol at 7.00

[ShishirYerramilli]

@DarkprinX2500 He is shaking because it is his responsibility to behead Mishima after he commited seppuku.That person is also there just in case the person commiting seppuku loses his nerve so the guy

behind him beheads him anyway saving his honor.

I would be shaking too if I had such responsibility!

[MrUnidyne]

Paul Schrader said that the unusual visual effect used in framing Mishima's face (starting at 7:03) was done by simultaneously pulling the camera backwards and zooming the lens forwards.

[ShishirYerramilli]

@MrUnidyne

THe Dolly out -Zoom in effect to my knowledge was first used in Jaws.It has become a staple since for showing a characters "collapse of perspective" ie dying, falling in love

or betryal etc.

[Peekingduck]

seems to escape most foreigners seem to not realize that this guy was ultra rightwing.

[natari2875]

こんな愛国心のない連中に三島の言葉は難しい今の時代に政権をと­ってほしかったと思う昔は武士の国だけど今じゃ貧弱の国だ私の意­見です

[sachiofukuzawa1]

三島由紀夫さんは　現在の末期的状況を予見していた文化人　領土問題　自衛隊　集団的自衛権　震災　原発事故対応への危機管理の無さ　天皇制　国旗国歌斉唱問題などなど　こんな文化人は今後出てこないだろう　憂国の武士道を貫いた唯一の文化人　それが三島由紀夫さん　でも僕は否定する　自決を　生きて行動しなければ　国を憂うのなら　東条の戦陣訓と同じだ　人間の生命の尊厳さを無視した特攻

[AveEvropa]

Are the quotes in the beginning from Sun and Steel? I think it sounds like it but can't remember the book exactly. HERO MISHIMA, WE WILL AWAKEN THE SAMURAI PAST. ONORE E FEDELTA.

[flowerinthehouse1]

緒方　拳　・・・・！

actor mr.ogata ken

[gabsylv]

The film did not handle Mishima's homosexuality. Sort of a minus.

[GHOSTBONERZ]

@gabsylv yeah it did, did you forget the scene where he's dancing at the bar with a man and the scene where the man comes to his house to find out why mishima is mad at him?

[gabsylv]

@GHOSTBONERZ that's "touching on", in my opinion, not handling

[ShishirYerramilli]

@gabsylv

Mishimas family and estate cooperated with Schrader on the condition that his homosexuality would not be acknowledged.Schrader mostly alluded to it and added one scene in a

gay bar but this was enough for Mishimas family to withdraw their support.

[gabsylv]

@ShishirYerramilli When will his journals detailing his affair with Morita come out?

[ShishirYerramilli]

@gabsylv Mishimas family still dont want to acknowledge his homsexuality.If they are in posessionof his memoirs regarding that cross dresser whose interview was the special edition DVD then not likely!

[HoboVodka]

You respect a crack pot trying to restore the Emperor only to get jeered by everyone in sight? Ridiculous.

[AardeWerkDB]

@HoboVodka - For some people it is very difficult to understand others. Sometimes they find it even more difficult to respect other people. In a way you could call that a kind of fascism. Just read one of his books, and you might understand why there still are so many people who respect Mishima as an artist, as a writer and as a person. Read his biography. Try to see everything in a historical context. And please stop trolling.

[gabsylv]

@HoboVodka He was trying to live his ideal...all geniuses are a little mad.

[uniquesoftu]

@gabsylv they are not mad they are just themselves.

but sometimes a bit madness i a gree...

but because the person really believes in his own ideals... and other people

who follow will not see

[Comrade650]

My first experience with this movie was strange. I watched it with an open mind and optimism. It was supposed to be a classic after. But for the most part i just wasnt "feeling" it. It was drawing to an end and for some reason, for some reason, the last minute (and the last minute only, starting around 7:00 here) made me completely fall in love with the film in its entirety.

[solnegrolunaroja]

I respect Mishima San's reason to do this. But I think it's more useful to die fighting your enemy and with his blood in your blade.

[woodkerne]

Powerful movie... and an unrecognised classic.

[m777222]

Great movie!

[PrH1ndo]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[Ariyawarrior]

Long live Mishima.

[radiobeefan]

Body and spirit had never blended, never in physical action had I discovered the chilling satisfaction of words, never in words had I experienced the hot darkness of action........................­..........................This is without a doubt the greatest film of the 1980's. You have to see it.