Schrader - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

This film is a masterpiece, a very rare insight of japanese culture, absolutely fabulous: thank you very much for sharing with us!

what a movie and score!!

goodness this is an insanely good movie. philip glass's score compliments it perfectly. can't wait to get this on blu-ray.

This movie is so thought-provoking. It is beatiful and grotesque.  It is uplifting and depressing. It encompasses and embodies many of the contradictions of Mishima himself.

Everytime i hear that Glass score i get goosebumps! Great score!

Here we have real life in black and white, art in color. In ``Wings of Desire`` it is opposite.

good point vok.

By the way, "Wings of Desire" is another great title coming out in autumn in the Criterion Collection.

frightening movie, frightening writer. The embodiment of Imperial Japan in one man.

You are right. It's the "Alternate English narration", right? Finally, I found it out.

Uh, try too be more polite if you can.
Interesting enough, neither "vegascorpion" nor I noticed this dub... and this does not actually means that we didn't buy the CC discs.

No, problem. If my response sounded abrasive, I'm sorry. It's actually available here in Japan. But the store I saw it at, Llamtarra, was selling it for nearly $100 bucks. Of course it was an import of the US Criterion release.