It makes for an interesting parallel with his own life and several of the topics that seemed to dominate it. This is all the more fascinating as Mishima himself wrote it right after acting in a film titled "Afraid to Die" in which he played, you guessed it, a yakuza. There's not much of a plot, more like an examination of what it means to be a celebrity, how people view him/how he views others and how the film industry worked in Japan at the time. It follows a young actor who is filming a yakuza film. This is an absolutely fascinating shorter work from Mishima. If you never cycle out the masks, you run the risk of poisoning the well.
And these masks are worn by stars.īut the real world is always waiting for its stars to die. To keep the public pacified, the spring must always be shielded from the world of masks. They know that the reality everyone thinks they see and feel draws from the spring of artifice that you and I are guarding. But the powers that be are well aware that being seen is no more than a symptom of the gaze. Please note that your booking is pending while we check your details and you will receive a further email once your booking is confirmed."For a star, being seen is everything.
Author of well-known works such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Mishima remains one of Japan's most well-known literary figures. Mishima’s works are often noted to be characterised by exuberant vocabulary and decadent concepts both combining traditional Japanese and modern western elements.
Born in 1925 in Tokyo, he graduated 22 years later from Tokyo Imperial University and wrote several short stories, novels and plays until his early untimely death in 1970. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), the pen name for Kimitake Hiraoka, is one of the most prominent and important Japanese authors of the 20th century.
This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, and convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, and save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb. Translated into English for the first time, Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. This atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus.
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