Directed by: Paul Schrader
Featuring: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara, Roy Scheider, Chishu Ryu
Year: 1985
Time: 120 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 432
Licensor
American Zoetrope
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
HDR:
None
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