Mishima film
Aaron Gerow
aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Sat Sep 3 08:11:03 EDT 2005
In a humorous footnote to the life of Mishima Yukio, a letter of his
from 1954 addressed to a friend who was a choreographer at Toho was
just discovered. In it, he describes in some detail a discussion with
"a producer" about adapting Forbidden Colors (Kinjiki) to film. While
it is apparent from the letter that the discussion was more playful
than serious, the plan was to have Mishima write the script and direct,
and have Yamamura So and Kishi Keiko star. Mishima added at the end:
"If this joke became reality, Japan could also be a great country."
Although a number of Mishima's works have been adapted to film, and he
himself appeared in (Karakkaze yaro) and directed (Yukoku) movies,
Forbidden Colors have never been made into a film.
Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner
Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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