“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” which IndieWire ranked as the second-best film of the 1980s, is considered by many as writer/director Paul Schrader’s masterpiece. When Schrader was a guest on the ...

If all goes according to plan, a most curious lacuna of Japanese cinema history could soon come to a close. The upcoming 38th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival revealed Wednesday that ...

With 40 novels, 18 plays, 20 volumes of short stories, and numerous major essays under his belt when he died at age 45, it is a puzzle to any writer how the Japanese author Yukio Mishima ever found ...

In Tokyo for the screening of his 1985 biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” at the 38 th Tokyo International Film Festival, Paul Schrader was an upbeat mood when he walked the opening night red ...

And Schrader has emerged as a more ferocious and committed filmmaker than his famous old pal. Over the course of a 45-year directorial career that encompasses such major works as American Gigolo, ...