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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Schrader’s Mishima, it builds a portrait of an exacting, self-mythologising artist through rigorously composed fragments, shifting between stylisation and biography without flattening its subject.
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Why this pick
Its immersive historical imagery and grave attention to an artist’s spiritual and creative struggle echo Mishima’s fusion of biography, art, violence, and transcendent visual design.
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Why this pick
Watkins turns an artist biography into a formally restless inquiry into public identity, private anguish, and social pressure—a bracing counterpart to Mishima’s anti-naturalistic life-and-art construction.
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Why this pick
For Mishima’s theatrical tableaux and symbolic precision, Parajanov offers an even more radically visual poet biography, told through ceremonial images rather than conventional psychological exposition.
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Why this pick
It shares Mishima’s fascination with Japanese masculinity, ritual, repression, and beauty under extreme pressure, rendered with a cool, formal elegance and an unforgettable sense of doomed intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
The synopsis lists the individual segments chronologically.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")
Dancing Friend (segment "Flashbacks")
Mariko (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")
Mitsuko (segment "Kyoko's House")
Takei (segment "Kyoko's House")
Thug (segment "Kyoko's House")
Isao (segment "Runaway Horses")
Lieutenant Hori (segment "Runaway Horses")
