Mishima: The Last Debate

Making Mishima

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

Tenchu!

Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

Black Lizard

Patriotism

Afraid to Die

Immoral Lecture

Pure White Nights

Life for Sale

A Beautiful Star

Sotoba Komachi

Rokumeikan

Spring Snow

The School of Flesh

Madame de Sade

The Hall of the Crying Deer

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

The Sound of the Waves

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

The Execution of Love

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

The Surf

Music

Shiosai

The Rokumeikan

Thirst for Love

That Complicated Guy

Die hundertste Nacht

The Frolic of the Beasts

The Sound of Waves

Les Mesdemoiselles

Conflagration

The Flesh Is Weak

The Betrothed

Made in Japan

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, ultra-nationalist, and leader of an attempted coup d'état which culminated in his suicide. 
Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s—including in 1968, but that year the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel. Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death", according to author Andrew Rankin.
Mishima's political activities made him a controversial figure to the present day. From his mid-30s onwards, Mishima's far-right ideology and reactionary beliefs became increasingly evident. He extolled the traditional culture and spirit of Japan, and opposed what he saw as western-style materialism, along with Japan's postwar democracy (戦後民主主義, sengo minshushugi), globalism, and communism, worrying that by embracing these ideas the Japanese people would lose their "national essence" (kokutai) and distinctive cultural heritage to become a "rootless" people. 
In 1968, Mishima formed the Tatenokai ("Shield Society"), a private militia, for the purpose of protecting the dignity of the Emperor as a symbol of Japan's national identity. On 25 November 1970, Mishima and four members of his militia entered a military base in central Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and unsuccessfully tried to inspire the Japan Self-Defense Forces to rise up and overthrow Article 9 of Japan's 1947 Constitution to restore autonomous national defense and the divinity of the Emperor, after which he died by seppuku.

Yukio Mishima