Schrader’s fascinating take on Yukio Mishima, Japan’s most famous author. In an unconventional biography, the filmmaker elaborated a reflection on Mishima’s ideas and beliefs, combining events of his life (in black and white) with his literary works (in vibrant color). The plot is divided into four acts; starting with Mishima’s youth and ending with his suicide, in 1970 , symbolically committed in a military headquarter. The film is structured on three of his books and poetic interludes. This is the project in which Schrader most combines a fragmented narrative with mise en scène.