A Scene from MISHIMA 

I mean, considering what we know to happen next, it technically was a car bomb; just delayed by an hour and a lot less bits in the deaths.

lmao my first thought when i saw that was "this car bout to blow up"

it's interesting they did that. it's obvious they were trying to trigger the association with a car bomb.

lmao, had me wincing in anticipation of the explosion

Glad I'm not the only one that were expecting the car to explode.

So true!a great man i feel sad for his tragica ending...unnecessary

Is this depiction faithful to the actual events or is it a crafted depiction of what the author imagined? I believe this to be a legitimate question of any biographical rendition of actual lives. Fact or fiction?

Well said! .......R.I.P OGATA KEN - San.... Our respect to you, from Girisha (Greece).... the beloved country of Yukio Mishima, and current country of my old Japanese language teacher, Mrs Motoki (..married to a Greek guy) who was Morita's classmate in the University, back in the late '60s! As for Coppola , and Lucas, who were also, behind this masterpiece, them too, are of partial Greek origins, as well! The world is indeed a small place!

Ken Ogata is amazing

movie is good but mishima was fuckin asshole

@@asd-qp4yi >korean

@@asd-qp4yi yeah thats the reason this movie is so interesting

Yeah they look cool. Like the Nazi’s. It’s a transgression of a sort to admire the aesthetic appeal of Nazi uniforms and memorabilia. Probably deservedly. Such are our mores.

I have that japanese uniforms

Banzai with style.

Looks ridiculous to me. It has the brown color of Imperial Japanese Army of WW1, the front button panel mimicks French grenadier/18th century style uniform commonly used by marching band members, and the peaked cap is obviously US pattern.

Fascinating

@@stevensmith1031 Several of Schrader's films are about men whose misplaced allegiance in an imperial state, usually America, leads to betrayal or causes them trauma. Schrader implies the real-life story of Mishima to be in a similar vein.

He should be, he was nothing but greatness on legs.

@@om3g4z3r0 Went out like a moron though.

@@thetankhunter100 Every lasagna ends in the toilet, it doesn't invalidate its greatness.

@@om3g4z3r0 Just saying.

@@om3g4z3r0 Did you just compare Mishima with a lasagna lmao, anyways no matter how great a person is in reality, nobody should be a narcissist.

If people had only listened to Mishima, Japan would have a new and more effective Kempetai today, and no democracy at all. Sad.

@@LTrotsky21stCentury democracy are trash after all

Yeah, no Great writer though

You should, ignore the crazies in this thread. Also, read Spring Snow before Runaway Horses.

@John Osman Quadrophenia moment

They look like Bellhops

Mishima was way before the 80s

70s, literally 1970

first choose a german equivalent to yukio mishima.

@@spencerhopkinson9874 Johan Mischiman

well yeah, but if you have to create a fictional equivalent to a real person for a biopic, that defeats the point@@MarkArandjus

​@@spencerhopkinson9874 I wasn't being serious, dude xD But now I will be: obviously Yukio Mishima is a fairly unique individual and Japan is a fairly unique country, so it's not like every country has a Mishima analogue, but that's besides the point. The point is that partially because how good the film is and partially because of the foreign context, a lot of people see the story of Mishima as inspirational and overlook the fact that ultimately he was a fascist dork. Were we to adapt the story to a setting and cultural context people in the West are familiar with (like Germany) it'd be likely received as a story of a talented artist that went down this path of neofascism and threw his life away. Not as an inspiration. He threw his life away for nothing, failed so miserably that people literally laughed at him. The Jan 6 MAGA morons had more success than he did. Mishima as a political activist was a far right fanatic trying to restore the emperor. Imagine a British analogue where in England some closeted gay bodybuilder civilian started following the chivalric code then dressed up in a uniform and delivered a speech how we need to restore the British monarch to their former authority as the supreme sovereign anointed by god. We'd all rightfully call that person a nut. He was a complex and fascinating person that deserves investigation, and his writing was beautiful, but politically he should not be idolized. We should be happy his little cult failed. He wasn't genocidal or anything but that's what empires and authoritarian governments inevitably lead to. Imperial Japan massacred many MILLIONS of people during WW2 and oppressed its own population as well. It was a regime that without exaggeration makes the Nazis look mild. Sorry for the long reply, but I wanted to make my point and positions clear. Cheers!

If we can stand to admire Che Guevara (for example) in a biopic, than we can do the same for Mishima. If you can agree that neither type should be idolized, then sure. Indeed, evil is what empires and authoritarians do. We see that demonstrated by Imperial Japan, the Soviet Chekists, etc. The truth is they all belong in the same grave. The end.@@MarkArandjus

This is definitely not a "realistic" biographical movie, but a highly stylized allegorical interpretation of Mishima's life. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eEjnhOsTsMo.html

Sorry bud, Yukio Mishima himself is the embodiment of blurring real life with fiction. Rest assured the film director took a careful and safe approach, adding pretty much nothing excessive to it. You can say it almost feel a carefully thought out tweet to avoid offending anyone type of approach.

@@distinctloafer good point. Mishima was a figment of his own imagination. The question I have has more to do with the director’s choice to show Mishima sagaciously mentoring school-boyish adherents (scene in the car) that showed a gentle fatherly persona that I doubt very much was anything Mishima would have shown. It’s as if the producers wanted to make the hard-ass, self-engrossed Mishima comport more to the image modern Japanese likes to promote - wishful thinking if you will. It’s as if a bio of Jeffrey Dahmer has him urging young boys to be good to animals and be vegetarians. Nah, that Mishima car scene was laughable to the point of absurdity.

@@davidlang1125 Hmm I personally don't see any significance of the car scene, even if it wasn't like that, anything that would work is good in my book, it just need to fill in the gaps between the story. Wishful thinking? Not needed, he is already such a controversial character.. also I don't see anything out of line, he is the leader after all. Those words he said in the car, even isn't spoken on that day, it is surely what the director extracted from the intensive study of Mishima's life and work.

@@davidlang1125 Your likening of Mishima to Jeffrey Dahmer shows how little you know of Mishima. Imagine trying to pigeonhole such a distinguished man.

Cope muttblood cope

Someone gets it

The events in this scene took place in November 1970.

Cope harder indoctrinate

Unlike Trump, Mishima had a brain

story of Yukio Mishima, a famous modern writer, after WW2 did not like the direction japan was heading, tried to change it. he was gay, wrote terrific hetero love stories.

He was not gay, he had 2 children. Though not completely straight, either. @@cliffdariff74

Farmers of the same race had been competing for rice fields and killed each other in the closed island for 2000 years. It's deeply linked to the religion of sacrificing for false gods.

Maybe true gods too.

I agree. No matter how his fans dress it up the fact remains that his death was futile, pointless and absurd.

@@tadghsmith1457 "Futile", we will see

Not crazy, Great man

@@alexmag342 crazy

@@alexmag342 Oh he was nuts, maybe you are too

It's not propaganda, it's just his life

no it doesnt glorify what he did

No, it's pretty accurate. Any Japanese movie wouldn't even admit he was gay.

Better crazy, then a coward.

He was a king

crazy dude

phenomenal camera work

病気故に出征できなかった先生にとってあの場が戦い死ぬだったのかもしれない。

@BADSPOCK Lol, we don't? We surely have a lot of problems in the west, especially the authoritarian way that democracy and free-market individualism should be seen as the pinnacle of society.

@BADSPOCK lol say that to liberals who scream and attack you for not agreeing with them

@BADSPOCK sarcasm doesn't translate well when it's typed.

Praise Prussia's designs, not the NSDAP's.

@@drlca6601 interesting! tell me more!

these look nothing like nazi uniforms. they look like the outfit you put on a pet monkey.

@@glassarthouse it’s not the superficial comparison to Nazi uniforms but rather the aesthetic choices made by right wing Japanese militias during the thirties and forties that glorified militarism.

Your mind has been utterly destroyed it is probably best to just end things...

Gay??mishima was married

@@paolotondo2463 in this case, Mishima was indeed known for his homosexual relationship with drag queen Akihiko Maruyama. He also stated that he was enchanted with the men beauty when they danced as women in Kabuki theater.

@@introvertdude842 i don t know this...thanks

As if a great life sacrificed for ideals could be reduced to sexuality, and so should never be portrayed as it was, and in its respectable moments.

Doesn't matter how reprehensible we find their character, if their lives were interesting they should have movies made of them... And Mishima led one hell of an interesting life.

Cry harder, soyboy

What a mediocre comment, congratulations. As an artist and as a man, he was an incomparable genius

What a small shrivelled soul. Must be a communist.

Big Cope, shekel indoctrinate

At least that felt honest. The asslickers are worse that the ones that dream of sucking off Elon Musk