Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

On November 25, 1970, Japan's most celebrated writer, Yukio Mishima, shocked the world.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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Drama

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Top Billed Cast

Ken Ogata

Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")

Go Riju

Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")

Masayuki Shionoya

Morita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Hiroshi Mikami

Cadet #1 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Junkichi Orimoto

General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Masato Aizawa

Mishima - age 9-14 (segment "Flashbacks")

Release Date 1985-05-15
Runtime 2h 1m
Directors John Bailey, Paul Schrader
Producers Yosuke Mizuno, Tom Luddy, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Mataichirô Yamamoto
Writers Jun Shiragi, Leonard Schrader, Yukio Mishima, Paul Schrader, Chieko Schrader

Ken Ogata

Yukio Mishima (segment "November 25, 1970")

Go Riju

Mishima, age 18-19 (segment "Flashbacks")

Masayuki Shionoya

Morita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Hiroshi Mikami

Cadet #1 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Junkichi Orimoto

General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")

Masato Aizawa

Mishima - age 9-14 (segment "Flashbacks")

Junya Fukuda

Cadet #2 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Shigeto Tachihara

Cadet #3 (segment "November 25, 1970")

Yuki Nagahara

Mishima, age 5 (segment "Flashbacks")

Kyuzo Kobayashi

Literary Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Yuki Kitazume

Dancing Friend (segment "Flashbacks")

Haruko Katō

Grandmother (segment "Flashbacks")

Bandō Mitsugorō X

Mizoguchi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Hisako Manda

Mariko (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Naomi Oki

First Girl (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Miki Takakura

Second Girl (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Imari Tsujikoichi Sato

Madame (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Koichi Sato

Kashiwagi (segment "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion")

Kenji Sawada

Osamu (segment "Kyoko's House")

Reisen Ri

Kiyomi (segment "Kyoko's House")

Setsuko Karasuma

Mitsuko (segment "Kyoko's House")

Tadanori Yokoo

Natsuo (segment "Kyoko's House")

Yasuaki Kurata

Takei (segment "Kyoko's House")

Mitsuru Hirata

Thug (segment "Kyoko's House")

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Isao (segment "Runaway Horses")

Hiroshi Katsuno

Lieutenant Hori (segment "Runaway Horses")

Naoya Makoto

Kendo Instructor (segment "Runaway Horses")

Kunihiko Ida

Izutsu (segment "Runaway Horses")

Jun Negami

Kurahara (segment "Runaway Horses")

Ryō Ikebe

Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses")

Toshio Hosokawa

'Rokumeikan' Producer

Hideo Fukuhara

Military Doctor

Yosuke Mizuno

'Yukoku' Producer

Eimei Esumi

Ichigaya Aide-de-Camp

Minoru Hodaka

Ichigaya Colonel

Alan Poul

American Reporter

Ren Ebata

Reporter #1

Yasuhiro Arai

Reporter #2

Fumio Mizushima

Reporter #3

Shinji Miura

Pavilion Acolyte

Sachiko Akagi

Thug's Girl Friend

Tsutomu Harada

Romeo

Mami Okamoto

Juliet

Atsushi Takayama

Interrogation Policeman

Kimiko Ito

Grandmother's Nurse

Kojiro Oka

First MP

Tatsuya Hiragaki

Actor #1

Shinichi Nosaka

Policeman

Sachiko Hidari

Osamu's Mother

Roy Scheider

Narrator (voice)

Chishū Ryū

A monk

Naoko Ohtani

Mother

Yuichi Sato

Student

Masahiko Sakata

Isao's Classmate