Members Only: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Director: Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader, Paul Schrader

1985 / 120min / DCP

Self-destruction and the (distinctly masculine, masochistic) death drive have been constants in Schrader’s work since the days of Taxi Driver, so it’s only natural he would gravitate to the story of Yukio Mishima, the renegade/ultra-traditionalist Japanese artist whose own life was an extension of his art, with his shocking 1970 seppuku its apotheosis. Starring a masterfully restrained Ken Ogata as Mishima, with Philip Glass’s stirring score accompanying sumptuously stylized visualizations from Mishima’s body of work, including novels The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko’s House, and Runaway Horses.

Featuring a post screening panel with Paul Schrader.