Ken Ogata

Iwao Enokizu, a remorseless thief and killer from a devout Catholic family, goes on a 78-day killing spree while fleeing from the police.

For the centenary of Yukio Mishima’s birth, we’re revisiting one of cinema’s greatest experiments in biopic form. Drawing from the Japanese iconoclast’s life and art, director Paul Schrader harmonizes a series of fractured sketches into a ravishing, expressionist elegy for violent transcendence.