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Mishima’s literary lifework in Japanese comprises 42 voluminous tomes plus 2 extra volumes, in the most recent authoritative critical edition of his collected works, published by Shinchōsha from 2000 ...

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Examining the canon of critical musings on Yukio Mishima, Marguerite Yourcenar’s work might be favorably compared alongside Henry Scott-Stokes, John Nathan and Damian Flanagan’s biographies. Though ...

More than a few foreign filmmaker have tried relocating to Hollywood, but it’s less often the case that an acclaimed Hollywood artist takes their talents overseas. Paul Schrader, at the height of his ...

The remarkable new short story collection by Yukio Mishima, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories” is newly translated and published 55 years after his very public death in 1970. Never before ...

Minutes after speaking to Japanese Self-Defence Force soldiers at Tokyo’s military garrison station, Mishima committed ritual suicide by disembowelment (Getty) As an example he said that in the ...

Haruki Murakami has always been insistent that he has been very little influenced by Yukio Mishima and far prefers Japanese authors like Natsume Soseki, Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Update October 1, 2025: A year after Schrader thought that “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” would screen at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, the director is finally getting his wish. The ...