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 November 25, 1970.

For the centenary of Yukio Mishima’s birth, we’re revisiting one of cinema’s greatest experiments in biopic form. Drawing from the Japanese iconoclast’s life and art, director Paul Schrader harmonizes a series of fractured sketches into a ravishing, expressionist elegy for violent transcendence.