Paul Schrader's Mishima -- What Makes This Movie Great? (Episode 133)
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"Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it..."
Yukio Mishima
I just hit the bell. I can't afford to miss another review like this one.
You’ve afforded it your whole life
Of particular interest to me was the fact that the designer on the film was Eiko Ishioka who also did the costumes for Francis Ford Coppola movie Bram Stoker's Dracula
fascinating -- I didn't know that. thank you.
WEEABOO
Thank you for this thoughtful review. Mishima is my favourite novelist, I have read all of his translated novels and plays, have read three biographies, and watched numerous documentaries, and interviews with him. Over 40 years later he is still an enigma to me, I think one of the great strengths of Schrader`s film is to approach his subject matter interpretatively, through his novels, his actions, his philosophy, all of which are presented in part during the film. At the films close I feel Schrader has posed more questions than answers, I feel he has done a fine job of expressing Mishima`s artistic aesthetic, elements of his nature and psychology, and created a viable biographical background to give the rest of the film an essential foundation.
Schrader`s treatment of four Mishima novels is highly original and perceptive. Mishima`s final day has been interpreted, and reinterpreted by colleagues. friends, biographers, and other artists repeatedly. He was a deeply complex man in life, as he was a chameleon as an Author, Mishima too left more questions than answers on his death. All I can claim to know is that he was a great novelist, and an eternally intriguing and compelling man, whose literary works are the gift that keep on giving.
stunningly beautiful movie with an amazing score by philip glass.
Probably my favorite film score; although, almost any Ennio Morricone score would be a close second.
Your channel has helped me learn so much about film and it's so entertaining, thankyou.
you're welcome. Glad to help, and I noticed people who watch this channel picking up Mishima's writings even!
Also what's really important is to look into the background of Yukio Mishima. He had a particularly Strange Life which is in part shown in the film
the movie makes him look like one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century, which he might have been.
Fair assessment I thought. Been ages since I saw it. Must go back and watch it again.
11:01 About this part: One thing the film didn't adress (or didn't do it too much) was Mishima homosexuality (or bisexuality). Once I heard that this was the case after arrangement with Mishima's family.
I’m really into “scoreCore” so what you had to say about the score and how it contributes to the film really got my interest piqued along with everything else. Thanks
you'll enjoy this score, very likely!
Paul Scharder still going strong. So is Doc. Matthews!
thank you!
This movie left me stunned but also oddly exhilirated
I really reccomend his novels. He writes very beautifully
Great review. Just a note: as far as I know it's not BY-OPP-ix but BIO-pix. Keep up the good work. I'd watching you older and also current videos.
I saw this movie for the first time in the late 90s. I was familiar with Schrader’s work as a writer, but not as a director. The word, masterpiece, tends to get overused, but this is a film that truly deserves that moniker. Its an astounding film, one I’ve rewatched several times and will probably watch several more times. It introduced me to the writer Yukio Mishima, and composer Phillip Glass. This movie lead me to read several of his books that are translated but much of his work has not been translated.
Note*** I recommend watching the film with the Roy Scheider voice over narration in English. The dialogue in Japanese.
Also, even though Mishima did write plays, “Temple of the Golden Pavilion” and “Runaway Horses” are novels. Both are available in English translations. “Kyoko’s House”, is actually one part of a four part novel, that is not, unfortunately, translated into English.
is that Roy Scheider narration an option on the Criterion disc? If so, I missed it. Great tip!
@Learning about Movies I think the Roy Scheider narration is available to watch on the App The Criterion channel. My understanding is what may be available to watch on the channel may not be what you’re able to buy from the collection. Both are Criterion but there are differences between the channel and the collection. Anyway, the Roy Scheider narration VO is available. And to be clear, his VO is in English but all dialogue is still in Japanese.
Thank you. Next on my list
enjoy!
Great film. Great review.
great review!
One of my favorite movies.
The movie is akin to Mishima's writing style which I would describe as "(day)dreamlike" - or less pretentious introspective poetry. That is a modernist style but infused with rich inner monologues or soliloquies his characters possess that seem to be aimed at the reader. He was influenced by European writers, especially Thomas Mann, so it's no wonder an Occidental/Western style and form permeated his life work. Though nominated several times he never received the Nobel prize in literature. On the other hand they didn't give Tolstoy one either. In my opinion the Nobel prize in literature is worthless and just a game of politics.
Film Qualia does a great review and general thesis of Mishima's work in his review. I recommend it.
thanks
The whole idea of Mishima being hyper-masculine while also being homosexual is fascinating
if you haven't seen it you might enjoy Peter Greenaway's movie The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover
Aside from the quality of Schrader's artistic direction which really stands out in this film, Mishima himself is quite a fascinating character.
But I bemoan the fact that Paul S. wasn't particularly interested in showing the many contradictions Mishima was ridden with and instead presented a resolute individual.
Nonetheless, this film has plenty of qualities and is a must-have.
Really, Shrader didn't deal with his grandmother's sexual abuse? He Also didn't deal with his macho obsessed homosexuality? I'm dying to know what you mean.
Philip Glass said that this was the first movie for which he had to write a score. That in itself is a reason to watch (hear?) it.
(i thank you for adding the caution to your review at 11:00 because I was about to vent how you "omitted" Mishima's homo/bisexuality and fear of dying old)
The first he wrote after seeing the film.
This is indeed a great movie!
I’ve read a ton of Mishima, and I can say, at least on an aesthetic level, the film seemed spot on, true to the core of what he was writing about, almost to a fault. I was thrown off by the choice of the play adaptations, but either Shrader himself or someone close to the film was certainly well read in Mishima and got it spot on imo.
They weren't plays, novel adaptations.
@@NormAppleton Kiki's House was a play
Yes, it is.
Mishima represents a nearly unrepresented part of History, the opposite of the prevailing opinion in Japan first world war IIs atomic attacks. My seemingly all of Japan shows to focus entirely on business and economics, Mishima represents those that looked at it differently, does the opposed Japan's other capitulation to the American will
hey man , i just finished watching the movie "The Trial" ( 1962 ) yesterday , and i see you gave it 4.5 stars on letterboxd , can you make a video about it ?
yes, absolutely. I first need to procure a decent copy of it, as my cheap DVD is the worst-looking disc I have.
I agree, it's an important film framed by a genius Philip Glass score. But isn't his name pronounced Mi-shi-ma, not Mish-im-a?
Thank you for the excellent presentation. Would Mishima be in the category of films called transcendental that Paul Schrader wrote about?
maybe. I don't know that he's using all of the techniques he talks about in his book -- I don't remember the movie that well. However, the final sequences dealing with planes and flight -- there you go!
There was a screening of this film that had writer/director Paul Schrader in attendance this weekend. You may find these videos interesting.
ruclips.net/video/vQCnJpgnwX4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/t2v0BZd6xJ4/видео.html
I love everything about the movie except for the casting of the main character. He is nothing like Mishima; Mishima was nothing like him. It's a weird blunder, and a big hurdle to get over.
緒方拳は最高です。でも沢田研二にも注目して欲しい。これ程美しく色っぽい人を私は知らない!
形式主義的な悲劇。ガラスの音楽こそが真の傑作です。精神衛生は明らかに無視されています。敗戦した日本の資本主義が、この多作な日本人アーティストを奪いました。19世紀にまで遡ってマルクスが資本主義に関連する主な要因として描写した疎外感を、この繊細で孤独なアーティストが実際に感じていたことを願うばかりです。今日、日本は資本主義に関連する不平等の道をさらに進んでおり、貧困、失業、そして米国帝国主義のスケープゴートである中国は、日本を自らが定めた戦後憲法に反して再軍備、核廃棄物の怠慢、核漏洩の無責任な管理へと引きずり込んでいます。感動的な芸術が日本をどのように描いているかを見れば、堕落した生活、失われた青春、ファシズムでさえ、米国占領下のジンクス・クワッド・グラグ、オーストラリア、カナダ、英国が人々の生活を完全に崩壊させ、日本国民を第三次世界大戦へと導いているものよりはましです。 (チョムスキー: 他に類を見ない戦争) ; 精神衛生上の自殺が美化され、英雄視されている。これは茶番だ。どうすればいいのか。レーニンはそう問いかけた。これは熟練した映画プロデューサーに期待すべきことだ。これ以上の反啓蒙主義ではない。
Formalistic tragic. Glass music is the real masterpiece. Mental health is clearly ignored . Capitalism in defeated Japan took this prolific Japanese artist. One would have hoped that alienation as described even as far back as the 19th century, capitalism related principal factor, was indeed felt by this sensitive lonesome artist. Today Japan is even much more down the path of capitalist related inequalities poverty , unemployment and US imperialism scapegoats China to drag Japan against its own stated post war constitution towards rearmament, nuclear waste negligence and irresponsible management of nuclear leakages ..if one only watches how the moving art is depicting Japan : degenerate lives. Lost youth.. even fascism was better than what US OCCUPATION ZINKUS QUADS GULAG AUSTRALIA Canada UK is leading to complete collapse of people's livelihood and taking the people of Japan towards the third world war. ( Chomsky : a war like no other );mental health suicide is embellished and made heroic . It's such a travesty.. what is to be done Lenin asked that question. This is what one should have expected from a skilled cinema producer. Not more obscurantisme '
Tragédie formaliste. La musique de Glass est un véritable chef-d'œuvre. La santé mentale est clairement ignorée. Le capitalisme japonais vaincu a usurpé cet artiste japonais prolifique. On ne peut qu’espérer que cet artiste sensible et solitaire a réellement ressenti le sentiment d’aliénation que Marx décrivait comme un facteur majeur associé au capitalisme dès le XIXe siècle. Aujourd’hui, le Japon est encore plus engagé dans la voie des inégalités associées au capitalisme, à la pauvreté, au chômage et à la Chine, bouc émissaire de l’impérialisme américain, qui oblige le Japon à se réarmer et à se nucléariser en violation de sa propre constitution d’après-guerre. gestion irresponsable des fuites nucléaires. Si vous regardez comment l'art en mouvement dépeint le Japon, ses vies dépravées, sa jeunesse perdue, et même le fascisme, le Jinx Quad Goulag occupé par les Américains, l'Australie, le Canada et le Royaume-Uni, la vie de ses habitants... C'est mieux que le celle qui provoque un effondrement complet et conduit le peuple japonais à la Troisième Guerre mondiale. (Chomsky : Une guerre pas comme les autres) ; le suicide dû à des problèmes de santé mentale est glorifié et considéré comme un héros. C'est une farce. Que dois-je faire? » demanda Lénine. C’est ce que l’on peut attendre d’un producteur de films chevronné. Ce n’est plus anti-Lumières.
Corrected version Formalistic tragic. Glass music is the real masterpiece. Mental health is clearly ignored . Capitalism in defeated Japan took this prolific Japanese artist. One would have hoped that alienation as described even as far back as the 19th century,by Marx capitalism related principal factor, was indeed felt by this sensitive lonesome artist. Today Japan is even much more down the path of capitalist related inequalities poverty , unemployment and US imperialism scapegoats China to drag Japan against its own stated post war constitution towards rearmament, nuclear waste negligence and irresponsible management of nuclear leakages ..if one only watches how the moving art is depicting Japan : degenerate lives. Lost youth.. even fascism was better than what US OCCUPATION ZINKUS QUADS GULAG AUSTRALIA Canada UK is leading to complete collapse of people's livelihood and taking the people of Japan towards the third world war. ( Chomsky : a war like no other );mental health suicide is embellished and made heroic . It's such a travesty.. what is to be done Lenin asked that question. This is what one should have expected from a skilled cinema producer. Not more obscurantisme '
Mid-life crisis: The Movie?
far more complicated than that. The social and political and religious aspects are at work here as well.
Great review!
thank you