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11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

2012 film by Kōji Wakamatsu


11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち, 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi) is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu. The film was based on the Mishima Incident, which was a failed coup d'etat attempt led by Yukio Mishima in 1970. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]

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Plot

In 1970, a well-known Japanese public figure and famous writer, Yukio Mishima, while visiting a military base, suddenly began calling for soldiers to revolt. When his proposal was rejected, he committed suicide in the way that the ancient samurai resorted to if they believed that they were indelibly ashamed. The film will try to put all the fragments of the mosaic in place and find out why this is the end of the life of this outstanding personality.

Cast

This is the film cast.[3]

  • Arata Iura as Yukio Mishima (the head of Tatenokai)
  • Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Masakatsu Morita (the second student leader of Tatenokai)
  • Takatsugu Iwama [ja] as Hiroyasu Koga (Tatenokai member)
  • Tasuku Nagaoka [ja] as Masayoshi Koga [ja] (Tatenokai member)
  • Suzunosuke [ja] as Masahiro Ogawa [ja] (Tatenokai member)
  • Soran Tamoto [ja] as Otoya Yamaguchi (the boy who killed Inejiro Asanuma)
  • Shinobu Terajima as Yoko Hiraoka [ja] (Mishima's wife)
  • Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Hiroshi Mochimaru [ja] (the first student leader of Tatenokai)
  • Shima Onishi [ja] as Kiyoshi Kuramochi (a Tatenokai member)
  • Hideo Nakaizumi [ja] as Kenichi Tanaka (a Tatenokai member)
  • Tomosuke Kasamatsu as Kazuhiko Nakatsuji (a Tatenokai member)
  • Yuki Hirano as Tomoaki Turuoka (a Tatenokai member)
  • Shinji Suzuki [ja] as Makatsu Sekikawa (a Tatenokai member and 龍笛 (Ryūteki) "Dragon flute" player)
  • Ichiro Hashimoto [ja] as Hidetoshi Saito (a Nihon Gakusei Domei member)
  • Motoki Ochiai as Hideaki Endo (a Tatenokai member, he engaged in Kuril Islands dispute (北方領土問題) with Morita)
  • Yuto Kobayashi [ja] as Shigeru Ueda (Morita's childhood friend)
  • Hanae Kan as Makiko (a Tatenokai member, Shigeru's sister)
  • Katsuyuki Shinohara [ja] as Ikarii, Lieutenant general (the principal of the Fuji school of Japan Self-Defense Forces)
  • Gô Jibiki as Takashi Fukuoka (an instructor of the Fuji school)
  • Ryushi Mizukami [ja] as Kiyokatsu Yamamoto (the manager of information education section of Investigation school of JSDF)
  • Ken Yoshizawa as Kanetoshi Mashita [ja] (the commandant the Ichigaya Camp- the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of JSDF)
  • Sanshiro Kobayashi [ja] as Hiroshi Funasaka [ja] (a former officer who presented the (Katana) "Japanese sword", 関の孫六 (Seki no Magoroku) "Celebrated sword which Magoroku made" to Mishima)

References

  1. "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  2. "11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate". Nippon Cinema. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  3. Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako (ed.). 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha. pp. 94–97, 127.

Bibliography

  • Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako (ed.). 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha.



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