Mishima: The Last Debate

00:00:29 This documentary is based on archival footage from 1969.

00:06:08 There are 42 volumes in the complete Mishima collection.

00:11:57 On the morning of April 28, I met a man who's part of the "establishment."

00:16:56 I knew something dreadful was happening.

00:21:15 That's why I'm here.

00:25:54 Zenkyoto was weakening.

00:30:06 You acknowledge that they have their own mind.

00:34:19 Former Shield Society member Waseda University graduate

00:39:07 Excuse me.

00:43:01 So Akuta told him he was defeated.

00:47:04 we need both new and old ideas.

00:51:01 Due to the time passed since production

00:55:56 that would dominate in the end.

01:00:08 Only Mishima would be happy to be trapped in an unliberated time.

01:04:22 They brought in a powerful light for their camera.

01:08:59 It's a fantastical concept but

01:13:22 Many of Mishima's contemporaries sacrificed their lives for the Emperor.

01:17:15 I've come to have that mentality.

01:21:28 We had no uniforms then...

01:25:53 was less left-wing than the Communist and Socialist Parties.

01:30:34 This big name in the literary world called Yukio Mishima came to visit us.

01:35:31 The soldiers ignored his appeal.

01:39:53 and what they made of their youth is a mystery to me.

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