oh and how the critic fell all over themselves to praise their goldenboy paul schrader ( author of taxi driver ) when this movie come out . i never saw the quality they be detect when i watch this movie back in the day and so i re view it and to see if i get it wrong . mishima be extremely uninteresting . this be a chilly and unremarkable movie about an author living or work in a chilly abstruse culture . the flat reenactment do not hold your attention because they be emotionally adrift and stagy . and the rest of it just sit there be awful . with soldier sing song about the masculinity they pledge themselves to and hairsplitting about purity and the admiration of sword and etc . it must be a triumph when you learn you have land philip glass while but then you have to get something out of him . glass score offer not a whit of distinction from his other work and nor do it provide the film any perceptible value . in 2010 it should be clear to anyone that schrader squander his career on work of no impact or importance ( cat people and autofocus and light sleeper and patty hearst and american gigolo ) . he can bore you to piece and and kill the momentum of a movie and quick than anyone else . schrader have make a resume full of lousy and amateurish film .