Richard Appignanesi interesting and Mr. Appignanesi's descriptive skills are considerable." Almost two decades later Appignanesi published "Yukio Mishima’s Report to the Emperor", a fictional autobiography of the Japanese poet, novelist, playwright, film director, actor and bodybuilder Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970), one of the most important Japanese literary and artistic figures of the 20th century as well as an extreme-right activist. Appignanesi's novel is set predominantly in post-World War II reconstruction Japan and in Benares, India. Its narrative builds up to Mishima's horrific ritual suicide by seppuku that accompanied his failed right-wing coup against the Japanese government. The novel explores some of
Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi is a Japanese video game developer. His work includes leading the teams which created Sega Saturn games "Panzer Dragoon", "Panzer Dragoon II Zwei", and "Panzer Dragoon Saga", and Xbox title "Phantom Dust". He is the co-founder of video game development company Grounding Inc who developed "Crimson Dragon". Yukio Futatsugi grew up in Kobe, Japan, where he attended high school. While spending a year in San Francisco at primary school age he fell in love with games such as "Pong" and "Space Invaders", and later decided to pursue a career in video games over his other hobby,