The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)

John Hurt as Narrator (voice) Died 2017 · Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Se...

Yukio Mishima as Self Died 1970 · Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most i...

Nagisa Ōshima as Self Died 2013 · Okayama, Japan Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; 31 March 1932 – 15 January 2013) was a Japanese filmmaker, writer, and left-wing activist best known for his fiction feature films, of which he directed 23 in a car...

Yasunari Kawabata as Self Died 1972 · Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive th...

Akihiro Miwa as Self Age 90 · Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan Akihiro Maruyama (born May 15, 1935), better known by his stage name Akihiro Miwa, is a Japanese singer, actor, author and drag queen. As an actor he is known for voicing characters in Hayao Miyazaki...