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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters · 4K + Blu-ray Canada

Criterion Collection

Released 2025 · Canada

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Best release

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray America · 2025

Director

Paul Schrader

Genre

Drama

Sub-Genre

Social Drama

Box Office

$437,547

Cast

Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Bandō Mitsugorō X, Toshiyuki Nagashima

Runtime

2 hours and 1 minute (121 minutes)

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What's in the box

Packaging
Digipak
In the box
Includes a 60-page book with an essay by critic Kevin Jackson
a piece on the film's censorship in Japan
and photographs of production designer Eiko Ishioka's sets.
Discs
3 discs — DISC ONE | DISC TWO | DISC TWO
Video
1.85:1 · SDR
Audio
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+ 3 more
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Subtitles
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Special features

DISC ONE (Blu-ray 4K)

  • The Film
  • Audio Commentary by director/co-writer Paul Schrader and producer Alan Poul (2008)

DISC TWO (Blu-ray)

  • The Film
  • Audio Commentary by director/co-writer Paul Schrader and producer Alan Poul (2008)
  • Making Mishima (2008 documentary with cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass) (43:55)
  • Producing Mishima (2008 interview with producers Tom Luddy and Mataichiro Yamamoto) (21:59)
  • Audio Interview with co-screenwriter Chieko Schrader from 2008 [1080p] (26:17)
  • Interviews with Mishima biographer John Nathan and friend Donald Richie from 2008 (26:44)
  • + 3 more
    Mishima on Mishima (interview with Yukio Mishima from a 1966 episode of the French TV series À la vitrine du libraire [1080p]) (6:15)
    The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985 documentary from the BBC TV series Arena) (55:09)
    Theatrical Trailer [1080p] (1:23)

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