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Someone pointed out to me confusion about the change in the narration. Here’s the story. I originally intended to have Mishima’s narration in English outside Japan to cut down on the surfeit of subtitles. (The US version of Diary of a Country Priest has French dialogue and English narration.) I asked Roy Scheider to read a transdlation of the Ogata/Mishima narration and we mixed this into the film at Lucasfilm. The Japanese distributor was to be responsible for mixing Ken Ogata’s narration into the Japanese version. However, there never was a Japanese version since the film was de facto banned in Japan. Consequently, it was never possible for non-English speaking Japanese viewers to see the film entirely in Japanese. When the DVD was issued we went back to Lucasfilm to fix this, allowing either a Japanese-speaking viewer to hear the Ogata narration or a non-Japanese-speaking viewer to hear the Scneider narration. In recording both Ogata and Scneider an equal effort was made to keep the narrative flat and matter-of-fact. Paul S.
This was a film financed by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola,distributed by a major Hollywood studio, that but for some narration by Roy Scheider is entirely in Japanese, and is told in a fragmentary narrative style which oscillates between wildly contrasting stylistic modes; the widow of the film’s subject was basically tricked into signing away life rights to her husband’s story (partially conditioned on the film’s not dealing with his none-too-secret homosexuality, which the film does deal with, albeit obliquely), and proceded to fight production in Japan tooth and nail. Mishima himself, Japan’s most famous post-war novelist, attempted a paramilitary coup d’etat in 1970, in which his private army took over the Ministry of Defense, and committed a highly public hari-kiri. He was and is a subject of vast controversy in Japan, a consensus society, who since his death have preferred not to be reminded he existed. Given the artiness of the film, the foreigness of it’s subject matter, and the Japanese blackout/ban, it is amazing Mishima got made at all.
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Even without the sheer strangeness of the work and improbability of its existence, this is an awesome film. “Mishima” is one of the best movies about an artist ever made. Mishima sought to make his life into a work of art, and his bid for violent political action and self-martyrdom was his terminal masterpiece. Mishima intercuts documentary-style scenes of his final 12 hours with black and white flashbacks telling of his life up to that day, aping the style of classical Japanese cinema of Ozu and Naruse; but the third layer of narrative are scenes from three of his novels, shot on elaborate soundstages on blatantly artificial sets in garish 40’s MGM-style color. All three narrative modes, and the violent climaxes of the three novels, coalace in rapid montage as the film builds to its endpoint, as life and art meld.
The film shows us the life that fueled the artist’s fictions, the fictions themselves and how they transformed the raw material of Mishima’s life, and then how Mishima’s disatisfaction with mere art-making lead to a flamboyant attempt at transcendant, suicidal direct action. In the end,Mishima becomes one with his creations, and life becomes art. This film is the most successful representation of a writer’s life I’ve ever seen, all thanks to Mishima the man’s insane extremism.
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Philip Glass’ operatic score is extrarordinary (and I am a non-fan), as essential as Morricone’s music is to Leone’s films.
I have not yet mentioned the name of the man behind this masterpiece. Paul Schrader, author of a one of the best critical film essays ever (”Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer”), writer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Last Temptation of Christ, director of American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, Affliction, Patty Hearst and Cat People. While much of his work is fascinating, this is an out-and-out masterpiece. A truly brave film, as impossible as a Tarkovsky or a Bresson. And if any film deserves the Criterion treatment, this is it; in addition to commentary from the director, composer Glass and cinematographer John Bailey, it will be full of documentary material about the actual Mishima (who was a significant media star in both Japan and the West, he even acted in samurai films!) to provide needed context, and the beautiful sounds and images will surely benefit from the company’s usual lush transfers. Check it out, you’ll thank me.
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