Review of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) by Peter M — 19 Mar 2018

Quite possibly the most immaculate film I've ever seen.

This review of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) was written by Peter M on 19 Mar 2018.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters has generally received very positive reviews.

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By Paul Attanasio (217) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Jan 2018

Mishima tries to make sense of both its subject's life and his work, and ends up illuminating neither…

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Un film vaguement biographique inspiré du fait divers le plus marquant au Japon depuis longtemps, en l’occurrence le suicide public de Mishima,…

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By Jj M (220) on 03 Apr 2011

A remarkable story of one of Japan's most famous novelists, represented in four parts, each part covering a vignette of the present Mishima,…

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By Sandra A (250) on 21 Apr 2017

I just saw again this stylish movie and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed it for the first time.Still fresh and innovative after 32 years.Mishima…

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By Tsubaki S (265) on 16 Jul 2011

Mishima's life, and all it's contradictions, is perfectly captured by Schrader in a biopic done right…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for New Yorker (1,403) on 08 Apr 2018

One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film…

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By Lori B (339) on 09 Nov 2013

Cool biopic, great cinematography, interesting juxtaposition between black and white and color…

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By Scott R (2,451) on 20 Aug 2017

Mishima is one of the oddest yet most compelling biopic films I have ever seen…

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By Stephen E (810) on 28 Apr 2013

On a visual level, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a success because of John Bailey's able cinematography, Philip Glass's musical genius,…

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By Al M (1,263) on 07 Feb 2013

Based on both the life and the works of Japan's great modernist writer Yukio Misihima, Paul Schrader's pseudo-biopic alternates between fact…

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