What went wrong?
mid life crisis
plus masochism and a death fetish
and another Jap won the Nobel. so it would be many years before they got around to giving him one and he didn't want to wait that long
>>8176858
Nothing, everything went perfect
>>8176886
Except for the part where he couldn't gut himself properly and his friend couldn't decapitate him properly and had to get someone else to do it.
I'm sure it was a graceful experience.
He misunderstood Artaud and literally tried to make himself a body without organs.
he was too sincere
He was an emasculated pussy that killed himself instead of fleeing to Argentina like any good right winger
>>8176942
That's what people say, mmm-mmm
That's what people say, mmm-mmm
>We are ghosts of a war that we have not fought...Having opened our eyes on a disenfranchised world, we are more than any other the children of the absurd
A beautiful death to him was the peak of life. As he said, he wanted to die among strangers, not growing old and irrelvant. But there was no more wars, no more grand gestures in the battlefield he could give for the emperor. Inspired by the Nationalist coups that plagued Japan pre-war, he wanted to give the nation an inspiration for rising against what he saw as the malaise of modernity, globalisation and American domination over Japanese soveignty. It was a set up for his own death, but it was also meant to be theatre in the vein of "Patriotism"
did he ever react to Otoya Yamaguchi?
he seemed to be much more successful than Mishima
>>8176858
He was heavily into spooks and they addled his mind.
>>8176985
simple assassinations seem beneath mishima
>>8176985
It affected him greatly supposidly
>The film cuts from this desperate screed to Mishima Yukio checking the completion of his latest manuscript, the essay Patriotism (1961). Basically, the film tracks how this incident affected author Mishima. It charts his subtle descent from romantic historical novelist to active political advocate; from a dreamer of past glories to a believer in present changes. Yamaguchi’s act became Mishima’s ideal of poetry in action, of stating something few writers would dare: that the sword is as mighty as the pen (what Mishima referred to as the “harmony of the pen and the sword”).
http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/feature-articles/the-way-wakamatsu-chose-his-own-fate-political-mortality-and-radical-dramaturgy/
>>8176905
His last moments were terrible pain and embarrassing failure lmao
>>8177042
>embarrassing pain and terrible failure
He should have just read my diary desu
>>8177042
>I am afraid to die for something greater than myself
>>8177014
it was pretty perfect as far as poetic assassinations go
>killed the leader of the socialist party on live national television
>effectively destroyed the socialist party
>did it with a single perfect sword blow while dressed in traditional garb
>hung himself in his cell after writing "Seven lives for my country. Long live His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!" on his cell wall
>showed no fear or remorse at any point
>did it all at 17
it really is quite awe inspiring
>>8176858
he was a fag who thought he was more important than he actually was.
He looks like he's having an orgasm. That beheaded head looks like it's straight up gasming. Siiick.
>>8177070
If you really care about an idea, work to turn it into a reality. Suicide as a way to escape a world that has already rejected your (bad) ideas is just hedonism.
>>8177120
Do you know if he was gay?
>>8177151
>le suicide is hedonism maymay
Sure is reddit in here
>>8177156
there's pretty much no information available on him which just makes it even better
In Japanese culture, especially a traditionalist like mishima , suicide would not be seen as a bad thing.
Mishima was a Japanese nationalist who saw the way the world was going and tried to get the Japanese people to revolt but in the end globalism and america won so he committed suduko and died like a samurai.
Also he was a closet faggot.
It would be like bret easton ellis storming the white house and trying to assassinate obongo
>>8177120
it was pretty perfect as far as poetic assassinations go
>killed the president of the union at a major theater performance
>effectively destroyed the republican government
>did it with a single perfect pistol shot while dressed in fine clothe
>after demanding to fight rather than surrender he yelled "Tell my mother I died for my country!"
>showed no fear or remorse at any point
>did it all at 26
it really is quite awe inspiring
>>8177233
nowhere near the same amount of spectacle
>>8177233
26 is pretty old. Doing that at 17 would be totally different.
>>8177193
>It would be like bret easton ellis storming the white house and trying to assassinate obongo
lunar park 2 confirmed
>>8176905
He gut himself probably, the only failure was that of his apprentice who failed to cut his head of several times and then failed to kill himself too. Mishima succeeded.
>>8177398
>apprentice
Was he his lover?
>>8176969
I've got no irony
What I write is all me
There's nothing you can't read mmm mmm
There's nothing you can't read mmm mmm
Cuz I'm not fearing
About Harold Bloom's sneering
It would have been better had he planned a real strike against his enemies. His speech to the soldiers was derided and his address was quite embarressing, he keeps stammering and telling the audience to be quiet as they were shouting at him. He would have been more celebrated and renowned if he had launched an attack against an American installation in Japan
>>8177655
He knew it was futile and intended to die from the start.
>>8176858
Japan was already an American proxy nation by the time he started acting.
He was VERY late to the party.
His biggest fear was Japan would become Westernized; that the Japanese would be rendered little more than "American mercenaries."
Modernity attests to the fact that this was a very reasonable fear, but it was already becoming a reality even in his own time. Go to Japan today, as I did in January, and you will find cities (such as, and namely, Tokyo) that are in essence the same as every other major city in the world. That is, consumerist quagmires; rife with the rotten fruit of globalism, whose stench and ugly sight is masked by a thin veneer of yellow skin and the Japanese tongue.
Above all, two atom bombs really did a number on their ego. A lot of what has happened since is merely denial.
>>8177666
Of course, but he could have put some effort into it
>>8177708
One of his most haunting words was
>Japan will disappear, and in its stead, an impersonal, empty, neutral, intermediate, opulent, shrewd, economic giant will be left standing in a corner of the far east
>>8177741
RIP in peace.
r/asianmasculinity didn't exist in his life time
also he was like 4'11"
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
>>8177708
I'd would argue the Emperor renouncing his divinity had a larger impact than the atomic bombs.
>>8177902
Which he did because of the atomic bombs, and the Yanks holding him at metaphorical gunpoint.
>>8177708
didn't he kind of accept Japans fate and that his beliefs were old fashioned?
>>8177917
That is the exact opposite of what he did.
