| 词条 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters |
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| name = Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | image = Mishima.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Paul Schrader | producer = Mataichiro Yamamoto Tom Luddy | writer = Leonard Schrader Paul Schrader | starring = Ken Ogata Kenji Sawada Toshiyuki Nagashima Yasosuke Bando | narrator = Roy Scheider Ken Ogata | music = Philip Glass | cinematography = John Bailey | editing = Michael Chandler Tomoyo Oshima[1][2][3] | studio = American Zoetrope Lucasfilm Ltd. M Company Tristone Entertainment Inc. | distributor = Warner Bros. | released = {{Film date|1985|10|4}} | runtime = 120 minutes | country = United States | language = Japanese English | budget = $5 million | gross = $502,758[4] }} Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a 1985 American biographical drama film co-written and directed by Paul Schrader. The film is based on the life and work of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima (portrayed by Ken Ogata), interweaving episodes from his life with dramatizations of segments from his books The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas were executive producers of the film. PlotThe film sets in on November 25, 1970, the last day in Mishima's life. He is shown finishing a manuscript. Then, he puts on a uniform he designed for himself and meets with four of his most loyal followers from his private army. In flashbacks highlighting episodes from his past life, the viewer sees Mishima's progression from a sickly young boy to one of Japan's most acclaimed writers of the post-war era (who keeps himself in perfect physical shape, owed to a narcissistic body cult). His loathing for the materialism of modern Japan has him turn towards an extremist traditionalism. He sets up his own private army and proclaims the reinstating of the emperor as head of state. The biographical sections are interwoven with short dramatizations of three of Mishima's novels: In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, a stuttering aspirant sets fire to the famous Zen Buddhist temple because he feels inferior at the sight of its beauty. Kyoko's House depicts the sadomasochistic (and ultimately fatal) relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young lover, who is in her financial debt. In Runaway Horses, a group of young fanatic nationalists fails to overthrow the government, with its leader subsequently committing suicide. Dramatizations, frame story, and flashbacks are segmented into the four chapters of the film's title, named Beauty, Art, Action, and Harmony of Pen and Sword. The film culminates in Mishima and his followers taking hostage a General of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. He addresses the garrison's soldiers, asking them to join him in his struggle to reinstate the Emperor as the nation's sovereign. His speech is largely ignored and ridiculed. Mishima then returns to the General's office and commits seppuku. Cast{{div col|colwidth=25em}}November 25, 1970
Flashbacks
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Kyoko's House
Runaway Horses
ProductionAlthough Mishima only visualizes three of the writer's novels by name, the film also uses segments from his autobiographical novel Confessions of a Mask. At least two scenes, one showing the young Mishima being aroused by a painting of the Christian martyr Sebastian, and another where a young Mishima purposefully exaggerates his illness at a military draft health checkup, appear in this book. The use of one further Mishima novel, Forbidden Colors, which describes the marriage of a homosexual man to a woman, was denied by Mishima's widow.[5] As Schrader wanted to visualize a book illustrating Mishima's narcissism and sexual ambiguity, he chose the novel Kyoko's House (which he had translated for him exclusively) instead. Kyoko's House contains four equally ranking storylines, featuring four different protagonists, but Schrader picked out only the one which he considered relevant.[6] Mishima used various colour palettes to differentiate between frame story, flashbacks and scenes from Mishima's novels: the scenes set in 1970 were shot in naturalistic colours, the flashbacks in black-and-white, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion-episode is dominated by golden and green, Kyoko's House by pink and grey, and Runaway Horses by orange and black.[7]Roy Scheider was the narrator in the original movie version and on the early VHS release. On the 2001 DVD release, Scheider's voice-over was substituted with a narration by an uncredited actor. The 2008 DVD re-release contains both Scheider's and the alternate narration (plus Ken Ogata's for the Japanese version). In a commentary on Amazon.com, Schrader explained this was a manufacturing error in 2001 and that the voice belonged to the photographer Paul Jasmin.[6] The film closes with Mishima's suicide (which actually took longer than the seppuku ritual dictates). His confidant Morita, unable to behead Mishima, also failed in killing himself according to the ritual. A third group member beheaded both, then the conspirators surrendered without resistance.[7] Roger Ebert approved of Schrader's decision not to show the suicide in bloody detail, which he thought would have destroyed the film's mood.[8] The film was withdrawn from the Tokyo International Film Festival and never officially released in Japan, mostly due to boycott exercised by Mishima's widow and threats by far right wing groups opposed to Mishima's portrayal as a homosexual.[9] The title role was originally intended for Ken Takakura, who indeed proposed this to Paul Schrader, but had to withdraw due to the pressure from the same groups.[9] In an interview with Kevin Jackson, Schrader commented on the fact that his film has still not been shown in Japan: "[Mishima] is too much of a scandal. […] When Mishima died people said, 'Give us fifteen years and we'll tell you what we think about him,' but it's been more than fifteen years now and they still don't know what to say. Mishima has become a non-subject."[6] Schrader considers Mishima the best film he has directed. "It's the one I'd stand by – as a screenwriter it's Taxi Driver, but as a director it's Mishima."[10] Music{{Main|Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (soundtrack)}}The musical score for Mishima was composed by Philip Glass, with parts performed by the Kronos quartet. A soundtrack album was released on vinyl record and Audio CD in 1985 by Nonesuch Records. ReceptionCritical responseOn review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Mishima has an 89% approval rating and an average rating of 7.5/10 based on 27 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Paul Schrader's directorial masterpiece is a classy and imaginative portrait enriched by a stunning score and impressive cinematography."[11] In his 2013 movie guide, Leonard Maltin called the film an "ambitious, highly stylized drama", later adding that it is "long, difficult, not always successful, but fascinating."[12] In 2007, Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" list, calling the film "a triumph of concise writing and construction. The unconventional structure of the film […] unfolds with perfect clarity, the logic revealing itself."[13] Chris Peachment of Time Out Film Guide said, "Schrader may have finally achieved the violent transfiguration that he seeks along with his protagonists; the film has all the ritual sharpness and beauty of that final sword. […] There is nothing quite like it."[14] AwardsThe film premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 1985 where it won the award for Best Artistic Contribution by cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka and music composer Philip Glass.[15] Home mediaMishima has been released three times on DVD in the US, two of which by The Criterion Collection who also produced its Blu Ray release.
A French DVD was released by Wild Side Video in 2010 titled Mishima – une vie en quatre chapitres in Japanese, English and French language with French subtitles. A Spanish Blu-ray Disc was released in 2010 titled Mishima – Una Vida en Cuatro Capítulos. It features Scheider's narration with optional Spanish and Catalan, but no English, subtitles. See also
References1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/1984/film/reviews/mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters-1200426523/|title=Review: ‘Mishima – A Life in Four Chapters’|author=Variety Staff|date=January 1, 1985|work=Variety|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=July 2, 2017}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://philipglass.com/films/mishima/|title=Mishima|website=Philip Glass (official website)|access-date=July 2, 2017}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://happenings.ucla.edu/all/event/103650|title='Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' (1985) - Paul Schrader in person|website=UCLA Happenings|publisher=University of California Los Angeles|access-date=July 2, 2017|author=UCLA Film and Television Archive}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mishima.htm|title=Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) |work=Box Office Mojo|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=December 22, 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=2515 |accessdate=October 31, 2011 |title=Interview: Paul Schrader on "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters"|first=Peter|last=Sobczynski|date=May 8, 2007|work=eFilmCritic|publisher=HBS Entertainment}} 6. ^1 "Kerry: It took some years but I finally figured it out. The orginal [sic] WB print and VHS contain Roy's narration. When we returned to Lucasfilm some years later to do the DVD, Paul Jasmin's narration (which I'd been using as a temp track during editing) was inadvertently used in the place of Scheider's. The WB DVD has the wrong narration. When Criterion came to do their DVD, this was all unraveled. They included Ogata's narration with a choice of Jasmin's (from the WB DVD) or Scheider's (from the WB VHS). Phew! Paul S." – Commentary by Paul Schrader on the 2001 Mishima DVD. (Please also see the discussion section of this article on this topic.) 7. ^{{cite book|first=Marguerite |last=Yourcenar |title=Mishima: A Vision of the Void |publisher=University Of Chicago Press |year=2001|location=Chicago |url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3645666.html}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters-1985|first=Roger |last=Ebert |authorlink=Roger Ebert|title=Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters|date=October 11, 1985 |accessdate=October 31, 2011}} 9. ^1 2 Information on the production included with the Criterion Collection DVD, 2008. 10. ^1 2 {{cite book|first=Kevin |last=Jackson |title=Schrader on Schrader and Other Writings |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2004 |pages=172–184 |location=Boston}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mishima_a_life_in_four_chapters/|work=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango Media|accessdate=June 18, 2018}} 12. ^{{cite book|title=Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide |publisher=Signet/New American Library |location=New York |year=2012 |page=1664 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=yzPADT7BTRcC&pg=PT1664#v=onepage&q&f=false |last=Maltin |first=Leonard}} 13. ^{{cite book|first=Roger |last=Ebert |title=The Great Movies III |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2010 |location=Chicago |chapter=Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters |pages=252-255 |chapter-url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=hMBfjIQjJ9oC&pg=PA252&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Time Out Film Guide |edition=7th |year=1999 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London |first=Chris |last=Peachment}} 15. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/939/year/1985.html |title=Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters |accessdate=June 28, 2009|publisher=Cannes Film Festival}} External links{{Wikiquote}}
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