UbuWeb Film & Video: Yukio Mishima & Domoto Masaki - Yûkoku aka Patriotism aka Rite of Love & Death (1966)

Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima foreshadowed his own violent suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking, yet made with the expressiveness and confidence of a true cinema artist. All prints of Patriotism (Y�koku), which depicts the seppuku of a army officer, were destroyed after Mishima's death in 1970, though the negative was saved, and the film resurfaced thi

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三島由紀夫『憂国』