Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - trailer (720x384)

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0089603/



Mishima was a famous Japanese writer. The phrase "(...) his life became the ultimate expression of his art (...)" is referring to his suicide.
I've copied the text from wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima ):

On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai under a pretext visited the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp - the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Once inside, they proceeded to barricade the office and tied the commandant to his chair. With a prepared manifesto and banner listing their demands, Mishima stepped onto the balcony to address the gathered soldiers below. His speech was intended to inspire them to stage a coup d'etat and restore the Emperor to his rightful place. He succeeded only in irritating them and was mocked and jeered. As he was unable to make himself heard, he finished his planned speech after only a few minutes. He stepped back into the commandant's office and committed seppuku. The customary decapitation at the end of this ritual had been assigned to Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. But Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform this task properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. Morita then attempted seppuku and was also beheaded by Koga.

Another traditional element of the suicide ritual was the composition of jisei (death poems), before their entry into the headquarters.[1]

Mishima prepared his suicide meticulously for at least a year and no one outside the group of hand-picked Tatenokai members had any indication of what he was planning. Mishima must have known that his coup plot would never succeed and his biographer, translator, and former friend John Nathan suggests that the scenario was only a pretext for the ritual suicide of which Mishima had long dreamed. Mishima made sure his affairs were in order and even had the foresight to leave money for the defense at trial of the three surviving Tatenokai members.


Trailer (new source):
http://srv14.movie-list.net/sexmaniac/mishima_trl.mov
(Quicktime 7, 720x384, 23.0 MB, 1:28 min)

Trailer:
http://srv14.movie-list.net/sexmaniac/mishima.mov
(Quicktime, 640x476, 22.0 MB)

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update: new superior source comes from criterion

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Thanks for the new encode. I really like that trailer and the music by Philip Glass...