Criterion always produces beautiful DVD packages, but this new box is one of their most stunning yet: a riot of gold lacquer and hot pink, blazing flowers, and chilly black-and-white. In other words, ...

“The play should be like a gorgeous decorator cake,” wrote about his adaptation of originally a 1930s pulp novel by Edogawa Rampo. “But when you look carefully at the cake, it is crawling with maggots ...

Paul Schrader’s cinematic collage of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima’s life and work, from 1985, is one of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film. Schrader shows ...

Oddly, the spiritual heart of Yukio Mishima’s grandiose four-part literary edifice The Sea of Fertility is not his native Japan, but the sacred city of Benares (Varanasi) on the River Ganges in India.

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If ever there was a film begging to be made then it is the story of 32-year-old literary wunderkind Yukio Mishima arriving in New York in the summer of 1957 with the intention of taking the American ...