Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

 

Year: 1985

Time: 120 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 432

Release Date: Tuesday, 03 June 2025

MSRP: $49.95

 

4K UHD + Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.85:1

Japanese DTS-HD MA Surround 2.0

Subtitles: English

Regions None/A

 

 Optional English and Japanese voice-over narrations, the former by Roy Scheider, the latter by Ken Ogata   Audio commentary featuring Alan Poul and producer Paul Schrader   Program on the making of the film featuring John Bailey, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto, composer Philip Glass, and production designer Eiko Ishioka   Program on Yukio Mishima featuring his biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie   Audio interview with coscreenwriter Chieko Schrader   Interview excerpt from 1966 featuring Yukio Mishima talking about writing   The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima, a 1985 documentary about the author   Trailer   An essay by critic Kevin Jackson, a piece on the film’s censorship in Japan, and photographs of Ishioka’s sets