More than a mere account of an artist’s life, Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters attempts to visualize the aesthetic and spiritual arc of its subject, the postwar Japanese author Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata). The film opens on the day of the artist’s failed coup d’état and subsequent suicide, then traces his life to that point via flashbacks.  – SLANT

“The most unconventional biopic I’ve ever seen, and one of the best.” –Roger Ebert