Yukio Mishima
Birthday: 1925-01-14
Place of Birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.
Movies
Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...
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Afraid to Die
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on crimi...
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Patriotism
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and...
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Making Mishima
In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and com...
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspec...
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Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...
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Pure White Nights
"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology o...
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Mishima: The Last Debate
Restored footage of a famous debate between Yukio Mishima and students at Tokyo University in 1969, ...
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Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata
The day after Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a talk was held at Kawabata's res...
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Two Days with Yukio Mishima
This documentary, produced by Hiroaki Fujii in 2005, features the crew of Yukio Mishima's 1966 film ...
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Interview with Yukio Mishima
French journalist Jean-Claude Cordy interviews Japanese author Yukio Mishima in his house....
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