mishima represent a life in four chapter be an art house biography about yukio mishima and celebrate japanese writer and who bear resemblance to paul schrader earlier character travis bickle ( taxi driver ) represent both of them be lonely people search for their place in their society and when they realize that world doesn not need them and they try to destroy their surrounding universe . if you want to learn about life of mishima and then you would not find a lot of information here and because it show that he do not live a very interesting life ( except for his final day ) and but if you want to understand his personality and then it be the best movie of it kind and a most of the movie be adaptation of his novel and also provide a guide to his thought . this movie show that mishima be a person and who witness the fall of japanese culture and which he be very fond of and with his final act he try to save tradition and prove to himself that he be a real warrior and but he realize that a a person he be just a man with no power to change the event .