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In 2020, a documentary titled Mishima Yukio vs. Tokyo University Zenkyōtō: the Truth Revealed 50 Years Later (三島由紀夫vs東大全共闘〜50年目の真実〜, Mishima Yukio vs Todai Zenkyōtō〜50 nen me no Sinjitsu) was released, based on the debate between Mishima and members of the Tokyo University Zenkyōtō on May 13, 1969.
Patriotism was written in the autumn of 1960, shortly after the Anpo protests, which were said to have prompted Mishima's public turn towards right-wing politics. [4] The contradictory nature of Mishima's upbringing and the social context of Japan during the time in which he wrote Patriotism also motivated him to take a larger political stance in his writing. [5]
Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death (Japanese: 太陽と鉄, Hepburn: Taiyō to Tetsu) is a book by Yukio Mishima. It is an autobiographical essay, a memoir of the author's relationship to his body. The book recounts the author's experiences with, and reflections upon, his bodybuilding and martial arts training.
Lesley Downer for The Times Literary Supplement praised Mishima's humour, style and wit. [ 2 ] Alexander Lee of The Critic gave a mixed review, commenting that Beautiful Star seemed "little more than a stilted piece of science fiction...pretty humdrum stuff" and called the characters "tweedy" and the dialogue "leaden"; however, he called the ...
Runaway Horses (奔馬, Honba) is a 1969 novel by Yukio Mishima, the second in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy.Mishima did much research to prepare for this novel, visiting locations recorded in the book and studying historical information about the Shinpūren Rebellion collected by previous researchers, including Ishihara Shiko'o. [1]
On November 25, 1970, Mishima committed seppuku after delivering a speech intended to inspire a coup d'état. [10] After Mishima's suicide his widow Yōko requested that all existing copies of the film be destroyed. But in 2005 the original negatives were discovered in perfect condition, in a tea box at a warehouse at their home in Tokyo. [11]
Mishima: A Vision of the Void (French: Mishima ou la Vision du vide) is a book about the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by éditions Gallimard in 1981. Summary
The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海, Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy of novels written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The four novels are Spring Snow (1969), [1] Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971). [2]