Kenji Sawada

A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.

Yumeji (1991) imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji’s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

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.