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mishima: a life in four chapters (1985)

"Your skin is so beautiful, I just had to cut it."
A fictionalized account in the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata), paralleling his life with his novels, and ending on his final day, when in an attempt to return Japan to its pre-war status with the emperor as head of state, ultimately ending in him committing seppuku.
Driven by the beautiful direction and Philip Glass's score, this is a complex and stunning dramatisation on the writers complicated life.

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