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Writer:
Yukio Mishima (writer)
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Release Date:
12 April 1966 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama | Short more
Plot:
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko... more | add synopsis
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Only for Mishima's fanatics more (9 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Yukio Mishima ... Shinji Takeyama
Yoshiko Tsuruoka ... Reiko
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Directed by
Domoto Masaki 
Yukio Mishima 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Yukio Mishima  writer

Produced by
Hiroaki Fujii .... executive producer
Yukio Mishima .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Kimio Watanabe 
 
Production Design by
Yukio Mishima 
 
Makeup Department
Sadao Kudo .... makeup artist
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Patriotism
The Rite of Love and Death
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Runtime:
30 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Toho Company more

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Trivia:
After Mishima's death on 25 November 1970, all prints of this film were rumored to have been destroyed by his wife Yoko. However, in August 2005, original film negatives were "discovered" at the late author's residence in Ota Ward, Tokyo. About 40 reels have now been found in what Japanese media refer to as an "airtight tea box". According to Hiroaki Fujii (78), the movie's producer (who at the time apparently urged Yoko to keep the original intact), the recovered elements are in "pristine condition". The film will be released on DVD by Shinchosha early in 2006. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Rites of Love and Math (2009) more
Soundtrack:
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4 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
Only for Mishima's fanatics, 7 December 2006
5/10
Author: Henry Fields (kikecam@teleline.es) from Spain

The contribution of Yukio Mishima to the Seventh Art was no big deal, but it does have one or two sequences that are really intense. His patriotic fever has its portrait in this elegy about sex and death, the suicide as an art or as an act of honor.

I recommend this one only for those that are fascinates by the figure of the Japanese writer.

*My rate: 5/10

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