Cast: Yukio Mishima

Direction Yukio Mishima · Domoto Masaki

Cast Yukio Mishima · Yoshiko Tsuruoka

Plot Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima predicted his own suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking. All prints of Patriotism (Yukoku), which depicts the seppuku (ritual suicide)...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukio Mishima · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Yukio Mishima · Ayako Wakao · Keizo Kawasaki · Eiji Funakoshi

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Keisuke Toyoshima

Cast Yukio Mishima · Masahiko Akuta · Osamu Kimura

Plot One of Japan's most important 20th century literary figures, nominated for the Nobel Prize,, and as an unrepentant Japanese nationalist who wanted the powers of the Emperor to be restored.