A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of the celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Mishima.A.Life.in.Four.Chapters.1985.1080p.UHD.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-ZoroSenpai.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 1 min
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#2:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch FLAC @ 575 kb/s (Japanese with English Narration by Actor Roy Scheider / Dolby Stereo / Matrixed)
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Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles:English, English (Forced), English (SDH), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French (Parisian), German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Spanish (Castilian), Turkish

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A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima’s life with his novels while the fourth depicts the actual events of the 25th Nov. 1970.

Criterion wrote:
Paul Schrader’s visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima’s life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer’s past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

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Language(s):Japanese, Japanese w/ English Narration
Subtitles:English, Arabic, Czech, French, Spanish

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In the early 1990s a spate of hospital films were released in Japan, including Takita Yojiro’s two Let’s Go to the Hospital comedies, Itami Juzo’s drama The Last Dance and Ichikawa Jun’s Dying at a Hospital, shot in a semi-documentary style almost as straightforward as its title. Perhaps these films reflected the greying of Japanese society or, as Ichikawa suggested in an interview, a world afflicted by famine, AIDS and environmental destruction. Working from a book by Yamasaki Fumio, a practicing doctor, Ichikawa follows the progress of five cancer patients from the time they are admitted to the hospital to the end. For much of the film, we are literally standing at the foot of their beds, watching their lives unfold from the middle distance. By making his camera a detached observer, Ichikawa avoids the sentimentality endemic to the hospital genre, while creating a quietly elegiac mood. Instead of wringing tears with close-ups of suffering patients, Ichikawa shows us their illness as part of a larger stream of life. Also, instead of satritizing the Japanese medical establishment, a la Itami, he presents his doctors and nurses as caring professionals who happen to fallible human beings. (Except for the doctor, played by Kishibe Ittoku, all the nurses and other hospital staff are amateurs enacting their real-life roles). There are stories, but no plot. An old couple, both dying of cancer, meet for the last time in the wife’s hospital room. A 40-year-old salaryman complains bitterly that he is not getting better, despite months of treatment, and asks his doctor to tell him the truth. (His doctor, as is still common practice in Japan, has been telling him comforting lies). There are no heroes, no villains. We do, however, see the young salaryman expressing his regret at leaving his three young children – and witness his joy on his last visit home. The hospital scenes are interspersed with montages of ordinary people doing ordinary things: hunting for clams at the seaside, watching a baseball game, dancing at a Bon festival. They are images that express, with a gesture or glance, the beauty and preciousness of life. Ichikawa filmed them over a period of months in various locations around Japan. They are among the best moments in the film. In a voice-over, the doctor says he wants the hospital be a place where patients come to, not die, but live fully to the end. Dying at a Hospital shows us, with a piercing simplicity, exactly what he means. Mark Schilling

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Quote:
Paul Schrader’s visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima’s life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer’s past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

Mishima.A.Life.in.Four.Chapters.1985.576p.UHD.BluRay.SDR.DD2.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 1 min
Size: 	4.28 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x554 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 190 kb/s
BPP: 	0.308
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (Original Japanese Narration by Actor Ken Ogata / Dolby Stereo / Matrixed / Criterion USA Blu-ray (2018))
#2:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Japanese with English Narration by Actor Roy Scheider / Dolby Stereo / Matrixed / Criterion USA Blu-ray (2018))
#3:  	Multiple languages 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Japanese with Alternate English Narration (Guide Track) / Dolby Stereo / Matrixed / Criterion USA Blu-ray (2018))
#4:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 113 kb/s (Commentary by director/co-writer Paul Schrader and producer Alan Poul / Criterion USA Blu-ray (2018))

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

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