A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts the actual events of the 25th Nov. 1970, "The Last Day".... (Full plot summary below)
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A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts the actual events of the 25th Nov. 1970, "The Last Day".
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| Time OutTom HuddlestoneGraced with a throbbing orchestral score from Philip Glass and John Bailey's luminous photography, this is appropriately monumental filmmaking. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottA sumptuous austerity, paralleling Mishima’s disciplined decadence. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe most unconventional biopic I've ever seen, and one of the best. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinCalling Schrader's masterpiece a mere biopic doesn't do it justice. It's more a dreamy, hypnotic meditation on the tragic intersection of Mishima's oeuvre and existence that takes place as much in its subject's fevered imagination as the outside world. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmPaul Schrader's 1985 biopic necessarily guts his controversial life - but the visual style is superb. |
| Sky CinemaRob DanielThose unfamiliar with Mishima's work may find the expressionistic novel sequences overly rich, but Schrader's film is a visually arresting, imaginative and intelligent overview of a difficult subject. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonGraced with a throbbing orchestral score from Philip Glass and John Bailey’s luminous photography, this is appropriately monumental filmmaking. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelOne of the year`s boldest, most successful films, a film full of ideas that challenges us to examine how we conduct our lives, while at the same time dazzling us with extraordinary visuals. |
| Film4Richard LuckFrom Philip Glass's glorious score to John Bailey's rich cinematography, Schrader's movie is never less than ravishing. |
| PopMattersAlex LindstromA Life in Four Chapters is an example of an artistic expression so compelling that it - perhaps particularly for more distant Western observers - transcends many of the complex, difficult, and politically-charged circumstances which surrounded it. |
