MISHIMA
Paul Schrader

O.V. Japanese | st English

Starting on the fateful day of the failed coup d'état that led to the Japanese author’s suicide, this biographical story employs a multi-tracked approach to explain his troubles. Alternating between the artist's early life and reconstructions of his greatest novels, the American director creates a work that is formally explosive and audaciously told, thus upsetting the codes of a classical biopic. Cerebral, and with a sumptuous plastic beauty, this avant-garde proposition is a vibrant tribute...