The Joy of Positivity: Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters

Paul Schrader's best film as a director explores the complicated life and times of a best-selling Japanese author who built his own right-wing militia

Paul Schrader is better known and more successful as a screenwriter than as a director. As a writer and an auteur Schrader is our preeminent poet of obsession, madness and incoherent rage. His screenplays for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ are legendary. It’s not hyperbolic to describe those collaborations with Martin Scorsese as three of the most important films of the past half century.