Patriotism

憂國

1966 · 28m · 7.0

Drama

Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko.

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka

suicide, husband wife relationship, sword, ritual, gore, lieutenant, black and white, seppuku, prophetic, ritual suicide, short film, experimental, suicide of husband, noh (nō) theater, love and loss, suicide of lover