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Certificate 15

Cast Ken Ogata Masayuki Shionoya Junkich Orimoto Naoko Otani Go Riju

Directors Paul Shrader

Screenwriters Cheiko Schrader Leonard Schrader Paul Schrader

Running Time 121 minutes

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A stunning Paul Schrader Japanese classic

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Plot
The biography of twentieth century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. The film, in four parts, weaves the life of the author with segments of three of his best-known works, leading up to his death in 1970.

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