En el centenario de Mishima, reseño una antología de relatos que incluye una obra que anuncia algunas claves sobre el seppuku del autor: "La espada", #剣 #Ken #yukiomishima #三島由紀夫 #腹切 #mishima #juliocésarabadvidal #lossables #Mishima100 youtu.be/pcRuvSOZzDA

Acabo de ver que hoy, 14 de enero, se cumplen 100 años del nacimiento del insobornable Yukio Mishima. Qué poco se le ha recordado.
Fue uno de mis lecturas formativas y me impactó mucho su intensa narrativa.
Y claro, recordemos también la peli de Schrader.
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In a still from the film, Mishima stares into the camera

Ken Ogata as Yukio Mishima, in Paul Schrader's 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzaX...

Watch on Criterion Channel:
www.criterionchannel.com/videos/mishi...

Another photo of Mishima lying in the nude

Ordeal By Roses #33
Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe, 1961
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"I soon realised Mishima never wanted a banal portrait of an author."
- EH

A stylized photo of a nearly nude Mishima lying on his back, between two other recumbent nudes.

Ordeal By Roses #41
Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe, 1961
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"‘Before Hosoe’s camera, I soon realised that my own spirit and the workings of my mind had become totally redundant."

An extreme closeup of Mishima's eye

Ordeal By Roses #8
Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe, 1961
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Mishima in his office, smoking a cigarette. He waves a samurai sword.

Yukio Mishima by Elliott Erwitt, 1970
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"The unquenchable thirst for beauty in him developed into a destructive force. The thirst turned against itself."
- Harold Clurman

Careful with that sword, Yukio!