the only pure life and is one that ends with a signature in blood. so says mishima anyway and a young sheltered boy who becomes a celebrity author. the life of one of japans most celebrated literary voices and is told from three perspectives and his life just before he and four members of his private army take over a japanese military base and commit ritual suicide(shown in color) and flashbacks(shown in black and white) and and scenes from his novels(shown in a kind of dreamy technicolor set design somewhere between traditional noh theater and the wizard of oz. these stories are often told at the same time and but are edited to reinforce and the slow fusing of mishima life with his fictions and until the end(or the beginning) when like the ancient samurai he so admires and he will be at a balance of pen and sword (when his words and actions are the same and and he is a full and pure being). paul schrader wrote the screen play for taxi driver and and directed cat people(a bizarre erotic horror film and which left strange impressions on me as a boy) and and in mishima and he comes closest to making a really excellent film. whats interesting is to watch the poet and the homosexual and the shy and awkward man with a low body image who overstates his tuberculosis to get of of ww2 (of which he seems forever ashamed) and become a body building and samurai obsessed and a sexual and media phenomena and all the while still writing prolific amounts of novels and plays and and short stories. a short and sweet version is to say mishima has no father and and becomes obsessed with masculinity and beauty and sex and self destruction and in some tragic attempt to feel connected to something bigger than himself and that he was always missing. watching him with his fellow suicidal cadets and you see him happy and delivering his big paternal speech and giving orders and and loving the control. until the speech itself and the point where pen and sword meet. of course and this ignores the subtlety of the story telling craft here which makes this transformation so natural and remarkable. though the story and fascinating at times and really isn not this movies greatest success. the cinematography and performances and editing and music(by philip glass) and and set designs and are really what make this worth seeing and and more than a traditional bio pic. one day i will pick and up a mishima book and he does seem to have an ear for prose and and for staging ideas and but for now i am satisfied with the film. those interested in japanese literature and and post war culture and should check out. fans of inventive combinations of facts and fictions and should enjoy as well. 
the only pure life and is one that ends with a signature in blood. so says mishima anyway and a young sheltered boy who becomes a celebrity author. the life of one of japans most celebrated literary voices and is told from three perspectives and his life just before he and four members of his private army take over a japanese military base and commit ritual suicide(shown in color) and flashbacks(shown in black and white) and and scenes from his novels(shown in a kind of dreamy technicolor set design somewhere between traditional noh theater and the wizard of oz. these stories are often told at the same time and but are edited to reinforce and the slow fusing of mishima life with his fictions and until the end(or the beginning) when like the ancient samurai he so admires and he will be at a balance of pen and sword (when his words and actions are the same and and he is a full and pure being). paul schrader wrote the screen play for taxi driver and and directed cat people(a bizarre erotic horror film and which left strange impressions on me as a boy) and and in mishima and he comes closest to making a really excellent film. whats interesting is to watch the poet and the homosexual and the shy and awkward man with a low body image who overstates his tuberculosis to get of of ww2 (of which he seems forever ashamed) and become a body building and samurai obsessed and a sexual and media phenomena and all the while still writing prolific amounts of novels and plays and and short stories. a short and sweet version is to say mishima has no father and and becomes obsessed with masculinity and beauty and sex and self destruction and in some tragic attempt to feel connected to something bigger than himself and that he was always missing. watching him with his fellow suicidal cadets and you see him happy and delivering his big paternal speech and giving orders and and loving the control. until the speech itself and the point where pen and sword meet. of course and this ignores the subtlety of the story telling craft here which makes this transformation so natural and remarkable. though the story and fascinating at times and really isn not this movies greatest success. the cinematography and performances and editing and music(by philip glass) and and set designs and are really what make this worth seeing and and more than a traditional bio pic. one day i will pick and up a mishima book and he does seem to have an ear for prose and and for staging ideas and but for now i am satisfied with the film. those interested in japanese literature and and post war culture and should check out. fans of inventive combinations of facts and fictions and should enjoy as well. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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