Mishima: The Last Debate

7.4

On May 13, 1969, 1,000 students from Tokyo University await Yukio Mishima. The air in the auditorium is taut with tension. The invitation inciting students belonging to radical movements by the right-wing nationalist…

Kishida Kyoko

Kishida Kyoko was a Japanese actress, voice actor, and fairy tale writer born in Toyotama-gun, Tokyo as the second daughter of playwright Kishida Kunio. She graduated from Jiyu Gakuen High School. While she was a student at said school, she became interested in performing arts and aspired to become…

Katsube Nobuyuki

Katsube Nobuyuki is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University Faculty of Economics. He worked for the theater company NLT, the Roman Theater, and also belonged to the theater group Yen. In 1964, after graduating from the 13th term of the Haiyuza Theater Company,…

Karasuma Setsuko

Setsuko Karasuma is a Japanese actress and model born in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. She attended Chukyo University, but left before finishing. She is employed by the From First Production talent agency. She made her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1980, moving quickly into the gravure idol scene.

Hirata Mitsuru

Mitsuru Hirata is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award and the award for best supporting actor at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for Fall Guy.

Esumi Eimei

Esumi Eimei was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He died of stomach cancer on August 22, 2004, at the age of 68. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ida Kunihiko

Ida Kunihiko is a Japanese actor.

Sato Koichi

Sato Koichi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He's the son of actor Mikuni Rentaro. He married Ayako Hirota in 1993 and their child is Kanichiro Sato. Sato won the 1st Tokyo Drama Awards as Best Actor three times: for "Kaze no Hate", "Tengoku to Jigoku" and "Honto to Uso to Tequila". He's currently…

Mishima Yukio

Mishima Yukio is the pen name of Hiraoka Kimitake (January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered…

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

6.2

"11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate" depicts the last four years of celebrated author Yukio Mishima's life. From the day author Yukio Mishima established a right wing militia to oppose leftists to the final day of…

Wakamatsu Koji

Koji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as "Ecstasy of the Angels" and "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin". He also produced Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses". He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre,"…

Aoyama Shinji

Born in Fukuoka, Aoyama Shinji is a film and stage director and screenwriter. He made his feature debut with Helpless (1996) and won the FIPRESCI Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka (2000). His film Desert Moon (2001) was invited to compete at the…

Afraid to Die

6.7

Story of a young yakuza (played by the famous writer, Mishima Yukio) who wants to change his life.

Les Mesdemoiselles

A young woman falls in love with a self-proclaimed player and quickly ropes him into marriage. But once they are married, she can't stop suspecting him of infidelity. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel…

The Sound of Waves

2.0

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father…

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

7.7

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. (Source: TMDb) ~~ Co-production with the U.S.A.

Nikutai no Gakko

~~ Adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel, with the same title. It's also related to the movie "L'École de la Chair" from 1998, which also is an adaptation of the book and Japanese movie.

Bitoku no Yoromeki

~~ Adapted from the novel "Misstepping of Virtue" (美徳のよろめき) by Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫)..