Schrader said if “Mishima” does screen at the festival (October 28 to November 6) he would fly out to attend and bring his new film “ Oh, Canada,” recently acquired by Kino Lorber, to show ...

“Mishima” was never officially banned from being shown in Japan, but there were verbal agreements that, for all intents and purposes, “unofficially” banned the film. To understand how that came about ...

But for all “Mishima’s” superficial Japonism, Schrader imposes a fundamentally Western view upon his subject — namely, that of the 20th-century psychoanalyst.

For Mishima, life climaxed in the intersection of art, fascism, eroticism, and suicide. While Mishima sidesteps both the melodramatic bluntness and misplaced notions of journalism that sink many ...

“ Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” which IndieWire ranked as the second-best film of the 1980s, is considered by many as writer/director Paul Schrader ’s masterpiece.

Schrader, writing in collaboration with his brother Leonard (Kiss of the Spider Woman) and sister-in-law Chieko, tells the story of Mishima’s last day on earth, during which he committed public ...

Schrader said if “Mishima” does screen at the festival (October 28 to November 6) he would fly out to attend and bring his new film “ Oh, Canada,” recently acquired by Kino Lorber, to show ...

After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in ...

In Mishima, Schrader fully convinces us of his character’s heroism–even if that heroism is obsessive, destructive, and ultimately, impossible to comprehend. –Benjamin Strong ...

“ Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” which IndieWire ranked as the second-best film of the 1980s, is considered by many as writer/director Paul Schrader’s masterpiece. When Schrader was a guest on the ...

While there now exists more works on Mishima and the Mishima Incident, the first to encapsulate Mishima’s labyrinthine personality in a feature film adaptation was the seminal American filmmaker and ...