The 1985 film by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo), produced by Francis Ford Coppola, employs a highly stylized aesthetic to portray the life of the Japanese poet and three-time Nobel Prize nominee Yukio MISHIMA.
In 2018, Maki Namekawa is recording the piano version of the entire film score for MISHIMA – A Life in Four Chapters (Glass’ first Hollywood score), for the first time since the original soundtrack was recorded in 1985.
Namekawa’s performance will feature her crystal-clear technique, which corresponds perfectly to Glass’ music. His musical character study of Mishima is consistent with his other “portrait operas” (Kepler, Einstein on the Beach).
Yukio MISHIMA’s meandering sexuality, his unusual intellect, his uncompromising artistic and political energy, and his erotic fascination with violent death set off a chain of events on November 25th, 1970 that led to a high-ranking General in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces being taken hostage by MISHIMA’s private army and then to MISHIMA’s death by harakiri.
Due to the decidedly negative reaction of MISHIMA’s family to the Schrader/Glass film, the film studio distanced itself and the film was not released in Japan.
MISHIMA himself said he would only be understood in Japan after 50 or 100 years – even today, the honor paid to his art coexists with perplexity at his actions on the day of his death.
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