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■«'^'f^^^>^■•;^'^^1*V*^-v■:^^v:■^,*^c:.^.;.^;^^^ -'>c^.. ;":-C/-.' '• VENGEANCE IS MINE and RITE OF LOVE AND DEATH Sunday. December 3, 1989 YUKOKU/RITE OF LOVE AND DEATH (1967) by Yukio Mishima; 28 minutes, b&w, sound. 16 mm. "Mishima, subject of a recent biography ( Mishima . by far Paul Schrader's best directorial effort) which dramatized his complex artistic/political thought and explored his multiverse sexuality, was a celebrated post-war author and neo-militarist radical who, among many acts in an extraordinarily active life, organized groups of paramilitary loyalists to fight for restoration of the Emperor. No stranger to the cinema. Mishima acted in several feature films, but personally directed only one: Yukoku. an adaptation of his best-known short story. Patriotism , casting himself in the lead role. According to notes from Grove Press. 'This story was based on an actual incident in 1936 in which a young Japanese lieutenant and a group of fellow officers attempted to initiate a militarist coup d'etat. The plot failed of Its immediate objective and the hero thereupon committed hara-kiri. Shortly after, the pro-war militarists took over the government and led Japan into World War II.' "The film version of Mishima*s formal Japanese simplicity and of European/Wagnerian romantic disgraced soldier and his wife Mishima's lonely death by suic in the aftermath of a quixotic code of honor) irreversible di artists, but failed to rouse h sacrificed his life. story depicts graphically, in a style fusing ritual restraint with the emotional excesses ism, the double suicide (Liebestod) of a It was to be a grisly foreshadowing of ide Just three years later (25 November 1970) coup which brought (in Mishima's steel-ribbed sgrace upon one of Japan's great contemporary is countrymen to the cause for which he —John Luther Schofill, Experimental Film Coalition program notes, 18 March 1988 FUKUSHU SURU WA WARE Ni ARI/VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979) by Shohei Imamura; 125 minutes, color, sound, 16 mm. Screenplay: Ataru Baba, based on a novel by Ryuzo Saki. Photography: Shinsaku Himeda. Music: Shinichiro Ikebe. " Vengeance is Mine " is an eclectlcally horrifying mosaic about a psychopathic criminal named Iwao Enokizu. The film's story is based on police records and a 1976 nonfiction novel by Ryuzo Saki. The plot evolves from an entwined pattern of flashbacks tracing Iwao from persecuted youth in a family of Catholic fishermen under the prewar military party to his eerie burial which resists a final exorcism. Imamura maintains a rich sociological and historical context on the Japanese people — some critics describe his forte as anthropological — while remaining disconcertingly clear-eyed In graphically chronicling Iwao's progress as extortionist and mass murderer ...