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Ishihara helped to mould the era, and the era helped to mould him
Yukio Mishima
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“Old man, I’m begging you… let me carry on… until there’s nothing left of me but white ashes,..”
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Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?
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“It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”
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Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics
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Mishima spent much of the time examining the hysterical response of young women in the audience, which he found mystifying.
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My latest book “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” explores AK’s work and life
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Into this maelstrom came The Beatles, the biggest act on the planet and symbol of youthful hedonism
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David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.
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The Japanese Red Army militants who hi-jacked a JAL plane to Pyongyang in 1970 claimed “we are Tomorrow’s Joe.” The survivors remain in Pyongyang today and are now on Twitter.