An exellent quote about Mishima from Donald Richie, onetime Mishima associate.
Mishima’s suicide-by-seppuku in 1970 “was indeed so romantic that its seriousness alone saves it from melodrama,” Richie reflects. “But, as Mishima might have asked, what is the matter with melodrama? It too is a form of drama, and drama is life. … Those crazy enough to say he was insane merely show us that their vocabulary cannot encompass such an extraordinary act.”
East Bay Express: Screening the Samurai
Well said.
