Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:32:03 -0500 From: ericksna@umich.edu Subject: Re: yukio mishima To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Message-ID: <1080945123.406de9e3b6aeb@mail.umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Anyone here know anything about the books of yukio mishima? I've just discovered him, and am wondering if anyone has any particular favorites, insights, or if anyone has seen any of the films that he was in, or if they are worth tracking down. nathan

I worked on Paul (Taxi Driver) Schrader's "Mishima" and would recommend it on a couple of counts. While the dramatization of his sepeku is presented in a washed-out-color documentary style, it's paralleled by his biography in black and white, and three of his stories in highly stylized saturated colors. Phil Glass did the music, so you can draw your own conclusions there. I was a grunt in post production sound, but managed to provide a muzak cue in a brief department store scene. It was enlightening to observe Kurt Munkacsi fixing a cue with a primitive sampler back in '85.