His Final Performance, the Suicide of Yukio Mishima on Nov 25, 1970

Patriotism written, directed and acted by Yukio Mishima

Kishi Keiko on the left and Jean Cocteau on the right

John Nathan and Donald Richie on Yukio Mishima (Youtube)

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Mishima – A Vision of the Void – by Marguerite Yourcenar.. (Photo of Mishima by Hosoe).
Hijikata, Mishima, Hosoe, Tomatsu Donald Richie (see more photos here)

R.I.P Yukio Mishima Nov 25, 1970.

Going to school
Japan Studies – Chozick

But by age nine, Mishima abandoned transvestitism, noting that: ‘it was tacitly required that I act like a boy. The reluctant masquerade had begun’ (Confessions, 27)

The Tragic Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima had a darker side: tormented in his youth by a disturbed grandmother with aristocratic pretensions, shamed by his overbearing father into hiding his early work..

Paul Schrader directing Mishima, A Life in 4 Chapters, his sister in law acted as his interpreter with Japanese crew and actors.
His brother Leonard knew Mishima.

Akutagawa Hiroshi, Mishima and Donald Keene
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