Bandō Mitsugorō X

For the centenary of Yukio Mishima’s birth, we’re revisiting one of cinema’s greatest experiments in biopic form. Drawing from the Japanese iconoclast’s life and art, director Paul Schrader harmonizes a series of fractured sketches into a ravishing, expressionist elegy for violent transcendence.

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plans Japan's 1941 attack against the American naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.