Mishima : a life in four chapters / Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas present a Zoetrope Studios, Filmlink International, Lucasfilm Ltd. producton ; a film by Paul Schrader ; written by Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader ; produced by Mata Yamamoto and Tom Luddy ; directed by Paul Schrader.
Title from sell sheet. Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Yasosuke Bando, Toshiyuki Nagashima. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985. Special features: Two optional English narrations, including one by actor Roy Scheider; audio commentary from 2006 by Paul Schrader and Alan Poul; interviews with cinematographer John Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, production designer Eiko Ishioka, Yukio Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie; audio interview with coscreenwriter Chieko Schrader; interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Mishima talking about writing; The strange case of Yukio Mishima, a documentary from 1985 about the author; trailer.
Summary:
The story of the life of Japan's most prolific modern author, who killed himself on the entranceway to the Japanese Eastern Army Headquarters after he was blocked in his bid to take it over.
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