favourite film think perfect unlike virtually film name never watch film think would better theyd changed whatever definition work art think so every brushstroke mishima perfect flows schraders script ive always sort liked paul schraders work you cant argue taxi driver light sleeper amazing film writing often seems border bombastic directing style usually nonexistent deliberate think films usually deal search redemption set real world ugly harsh style suits themes presents characters simple realistic way lets show audience truth situation imagine schrader directed taxi driver bringing dead instead scorsese like protagonists two films mishima man ideal schrader material rightwing vain odds society works subtle beautiful fact secondary writing career womans writer churning reasonably described romantic potboilers necessarily imagine schrader ideal man capture subtlety beauty film think film shows was script helped fashion splits mishima man three parts life death mind life represented black white still camera formal compositions death always best remembered handheld documentary style mind represented dramatised extracts novels one revealing thought processes complex man hardly ever wrote character reflection himself dramatisations beautiful look at thanks eiko ishiokas remarkable production design schraders imaginative staging parts acting superb especially ken ogata mishima captures essential charm arrogance narcissism man photography excellent throughout contains images viewer retain forever finally music simply superb perfectly matching images although written recorded shooting adjusted editorial process rerecorded much music influenced shoot know bonds perfectly image seen many ideas various people think theme film is schrader trying say know big stuff life death etc think film saying anything mishima already said it film simply repeats