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My favourite Japanese film of ALL TIME has to be Mishima! It is quite hard to get hold of if you live in England since it isn't available on Region 2 DVD but if you ever get the chance to watch it or you live in America or Japan then you MUST see it!!

It is a biopic about author Yukio Mishima and follows his life story partially with techniques that invoke stark naturalism and for the rest on beautiful stage sets to create a dream-like feeling and it uses the most beautiful colours you could ever see in a film. So completely shocking, yet artistic and beautiful and tragic at the same time.

If you have any vague interest in politics and art then you should love this. Plus it has an amazing soundtrack by Philip Glass!