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Remembering Mishima by Greg Johnson

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:41:55 +0000

Greg Johnson, editor of Counter-Currents, posted a brief remembrance of Yukio Mishima earlier this year.

Remembering Yukio Mishima:
January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

More on Black Lizard

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:21:28 +0000

Die young, stay pretty.

The sound is a knowing John Zorn-style pastiche, and one of the biggest cues to how Mishima’s play is to be viewed: not as kabuki detective thriller, and certainly not as a philosophical meditation on beauty and control, but rather as a heavily ironized postmodern stew of the serious, the formal and the downright trashy. Rather than farce, it is a detached quotation of farce, a precise clockwork of profane surprise. Read more here…

(I have no idea what that means, but I bought my tickets today.)

Thoughts and Perspectives on Mishima

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:54:19 +0000

From National Anarchist Troy Southgate’s Black Front Press has announced that Volume 8 of his Thoughts and Perspectives series will deal with Mishima. Mishima collectors interested in his continued influence on the far right will want to order a copy for their archives. Like Black Front Press on Facebook for ordering information.

The well-known author, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), remains one of the greatest figures in Japanese literature and he was also an accomplished poet, actor, playwright and film director. Inspired by the traditional principles of the Samurai texts, Mishima was a fierce critic of post-1945 Japan and made the ultimate sacrifice for his beliefs. On November 25th, 1970, shortly after completing his four-volume Sea of Fertility, Mishima and several other committed members of the Tatenokai, or Shield Society, stormed the commandant’s office at the Self-Defence Forces headquarters in Tokyo and delivered a stirring nationalistic speech to the assembled troops which had gathered beneath the balcony. Consequently, Japan’s most famous and controversial personality committed ritual suicide (seppuku) and was immortalised forever. The material discussed in this original and ground-breaking study from Black Front Press, includes The Immortal Death of Mishima; Hidden Among the Leaves: Yukio Mishima and Hagakure; Warrior of the Rising Sun; Mishima Contra Nihilism; Twentieth-Century Samurai; Discovering Mishima; Production Without Capital: Mishima’s Lost World; Damn Japs: The People It’s Okay to Hate; and Mishima in 1968. A distinguished array of contributors includes Troy Southgate (Editor), Douglas P., Koichi Toyama, K. R. Bolton, Dimitris Michalopoulos, Wulf, Christopher Pankhurst, John Howells and Vijay Prozak.

Imago Theater stages The Black Lizard in English

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:05:35 +0000

The Imago Theater is putting on Mishima’s play “The Black Lizard” in a new English translation. Here’s more from OregonLive.

Clips of the Japanese film can be found on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnqtWMUxKM

The room where Mishima made heaven beautiful.

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:54:43 +0000

Trailer for a new Mishima movie

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:51:38 +0000

James J O’Meara : Mishima and the Emperor as Joker

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:48:32 +0000

Excerpt and commentary from Henry Scott-Stokes bio.

Mishima: The Emperor as Joker

My copy of Ba Ra Kei for sale.

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:20:28 +0000

I just put my copy of BaRaKei up on eBay for a good price. If you’ve wanted it for your collection, here it is.

Sköll – Radio Mishima

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:19:38 +0000

Italian singer Sköll (Frederico) did a song called Radio Mishima on his concept album ‘Sole e Acciaio’ (“Sun and Steel”) from 2005.

His official web site is here:

http://www.skoll.it/home.php

Skoll on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skoll/39052148606

A tribute video for the song “Radio Mishima” can be found below:

Mishima Tattoo

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:03:50 +0000

A reader sent in a tattoo he had done of Mishima. The artist is Rude 77 from Leiden (Holland).