Lost Mishima film foretelling suicide found

Mark Nornes amnornes
Sat Aug 20 08:31:50 EDT 2005


The article talks about a single negative. At the Viennale ATG 
retrospective we learned from Kuzui-san that the the calligraphic 
intertitles for the English version were painted by Mishima himself. 
One striking aspect of these intertitles are the occasional 
misspellings, which Mishima simply smudged out with a finger. The 
imperfection left an auratic mark on the textual interruptions, 
amplifying the powerful experience of watching the real author/director 
rehearsing reality.

In any case, I wonder what became of the English negative?

Markus





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