Update October 1, 2025: A year after Schrader thought that “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” would screen at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, the director is finally getting his wish. The ...

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), the acclaimed and enigmatic author who would have turned 100 this year, wrote a haunting short ...

Yukio Mishima, second from left, literary critic Kenichi Yoshida, third from left, and Donald Keene, fourth from left, are seen during a meeting of the Hachinoki-kai literary circle in this photo ...

One of post-war Japan’s most controversial figures, Yukio Mishima was an author, poet, playwright and actor who became an increasingly vocal far-right nationalist in the 1960s. Disheartened by Japan’s ...

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Donald Keene is seen holding a book given to him by Yukio Mishima autographed by the famed author himself, in this photo taken in New York in July 2011. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial ...

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Director Riahipour also acts in the play along with Forough Jalali, Golnoush Shafiei Makvand, and Bahar Nazari. Mishima wrote the play in 1954, which appeared in his “Five Modern Noh Plays”. It ...

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 stature to ...