Schrader Ep. 12: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) with Comrade Yui

It's the MISHIMA episode. It's also the Mishima episode, in a way.

We do our best to discuss both Paul Schrader's 1985 art-biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS and the man Yukio Mishima with our returning pal Comrade Yui, who has been on a real journey with this film. As you might expect, things get pretty weighty: the nature and purpose of art, Schrader's depiction of the suicide, whether you can be a bodybuilder without being fascist about it. This is a special one, folks.

Further Reading:

Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist - An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

"Mishima, Mon Amour" by Gary Indiana

"Sea of Crises" by Brian Phillips

Further Viewing:

THE STRANGE CASE OF YUKIO MISHIMA (McIntyre, 1985)

PATRIOTISM (Mishima, 1966)