For Those We Love/Yamato

[Edel Quinn]

Hi Edan,

Many thanks for all your help. Indeed Mishima's wife made things very  
difficult for Schrader, amongst other stipulations, she forbade him  
not to deal explicitly with his death or at all with his  
homosexuality. I have also read that Mishima's family were  
instrumental in ensuring the film never got an official release in  
Japan.

I'd be most grateful for a scan of that interview if it's not too much  
hassle.

Kind regards, Edel Q


>
> I know Schrader's film was well-known enough for him to have been  
> interviewed in The Japan Times in around April or May of 1984 - when  
> he was in the middle of shooting it in Japan.
> He was insistent that the film was NOT going to be the  
> quintessential Mishima biopic - it was just his personal reaction to  
> the author. I think he even said something to the effect that  
> Mishima could have been from any country and he would have made it -  
> ie. Japan had little to do with the story. And, if my memory serves  
> me correctly, I think he also intimated that he was disappointed in  
> Mishima's widow for not approving of the film... I think that was  
> the main issue surrounding the film when it came out, too.
>
> I came across the interview in researching our "from the archive"  
> series - it was exactly 25yrs ago a few months back. I think I still  
> have a copy at the office (I ended up using a different article for  
> our series that month) so I could probably scan and send it if you'd  
> like. And if you can wait till next year then 1985 will be 25 years  
> past and I will probably come across more articles that came out  
> around the film's release.
>
> Mark Schilling reviews of the other two films you mentioned are here:
> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20070525a3.html
> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20051223a3.html
>
> Edan Corkill
> The Japan Times
>
>
> 2009/7/16 Edel Quinn <delquinn at gmail.com>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know of any good English articles on Shinjo's For Those  
> We Love (Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku, 2007 )  and/or  
> Sato's Yamato (Otoko-tachi no Yamato, 2005 ).
>
> Also does anyone know anything about the Japanese reception of Paul  
> Scrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, 1985?
>
> Many thanks , Edel Quinn
>
>
>

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