30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO XXX
11.25 JIKETSU NO HI, MISHIMA YUKIO TO WAKAMONOTACHI
by Koji Wakamatsu
Country: Japan
Year: 2012
Duration: 120'
On November 25, 1970, a man committed suicide inside the headquarters of Japan’s Ministry of Defense by plunging a knife into his stomach, as per the Samurai code. The suicide victim was the writer Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s best-known and most-appreciated intellectuals. A right-wing activist and follower of traditional Japanese ideology, Mishima had created his own personal army, the Tatenokai, by recruiting from among the members of the conservative student movement. With four of his closest followers, he had barricaded himself inside the Ministry, asking the military to support his battle to restore Imperial society.
Biography
film director
Koji Wakamatsu
Koji Wakamatsu (Miyagi, Japan, 1936 - Tokyo, Japan, 2012) was one of the greatest Japanese directors, coming from the New Wave in the 1960s. He specialized in pinku eiga and then realized a long series of innovative films, with many references to daily life Japanese society. Torino Film Festival presented in 1989 Violated Angels (1967), and then Cycling Chronicles (2005), United Red Army (2007) and Caterpillar (2010). His last film The Millennial Rapture (2012) was screened in Venice, short before his departure.
FILMOGRAFIA
Amai wana (1963), Kabe no naka no himegoto (Affairs within Walls, 1965), Taiji ga mitsuryosuru toki (Embrione, 1966), Yuke yuke nidome no shojo (Su su per la seconda volta vergine, 1969), Hika (1971), Tenshi no kôkotsu (Estasi degli angeli, 1972), Delta no okite (1975), Kagi (1983), Asu naki machikado (1997), 17-Sai no fukei (Cycling Chronicles, 2005), Jitsuroku rengo sekigun - Asama sanso e no michi (United Red Army, 2007), Caterpillar (2010), Sennen no yuraku (The Millennial Rapture, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“In this film, I decided to focus on the opposite side of 1960s to the one I explored in United Red Army. Both Mishima and the left wing radicals were struggling to alter Japan for the better; time has allowed us to see that in our society nothing changed.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Koji Wakamatsu
sceneggiatura/screenplay Koji Wakamatsu, Masayuki Kakegawa fotografia/cinematography Tomohiko Tsuji
montaggio/film editing Kumiko Sakamoto
costumi/costume design Masae Miyamoto
musica/music Fumio Itabashi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Arata Iura (Yukio Mishima), Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Masakatsu Morita), Shinobu Terajima (la moglie di Yukio Mishima/Yukio Mishima’s wife), Soran Tamoto (Otoya Yamaguchi)
produttore/producer Noriko Ozaki
produzione/production Wakamatsu Production, Skhole Co. LTD
vendita all’estero/world sales Wild Bunch
sceneggiatura/screenplay Koji Wakamatsu, Masayuki Kakegawa fotografia/cinematography Tomohiko Tsuji
montaggio/film editing Kumiko Sakamoto
costumi/costume design Masae Miyamoto
musica/music Fumio Itabashi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Arata Iura (Yukio Mishima), Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Masakatsu Morita), Shinobu Terajima (la moglie di Yukio Mishima/Yukio Mishima’s wife), Soran Tamoto (Otoya Yamaguchi)
produttore/producer Noriko Ozaki
produzione/production Wakamatsu Production, Skhole Co. LTD
vendita all’estero/world sales Wild Bunch
