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Yukio Mishima[ a] ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. Mishima is considered one of the most important post-war stylists of the Japanese language.
SOURCE: McAdams, Dan P. “Fantasy and Reality in the Death of Yukio Mishima.”. Biography 8, no. 4 (fall 1985): 292-317. [ In the following essay, McAdams examines the ways in which Mishima's ...
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), an author who loved cats and is remembered for carrying out seppuku — ritual suicide by disembowelment, followed by decapitation with the help of an assistant — uses the death and dissection of a cat for the emblematic scene in his novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
Evoking the samurai tradition of shinju or double suicide, Kochan's “little death” signifies a dying with Sebastian. 13. ... The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1990), 124.
In the decades since its 1985 release, director Paul Schrader’s “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” based on the life and work of the prolific Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, has grown in ...
In modern times, author Yukio Mishima's controversial act of seppuku in 1970 highlighted the enduring legacy of bushido and its influence on Japanese cultural identity. Mishima's seppuku was not only a protest against perceived societal decline but also a symbolic gesture of defiance against Japan's post-war embrace of Western values and ...
4 days ago · Re-release of Paul Schrader's unconventional 1985 biopic of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, which interweaves scenes from important aspects of the subject's life. Glimpses of Mishima's formative years unfold in black and white, juxtaposed with richly coloured excerpts from some of his novels.
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