Paul Schrader Discusses Yukio Mishima | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • @rastabattiboy
    @rastabattiboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    imagine if talk shows were still like this

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      The goons on late night have a median IQ of 80.

    • @roel.vinckens
      @roel.vinckens 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@nhmooytis7058 A combined IQ of 80.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@roel.vinckens exactly!

    • @Iancreed8592
      @Iancreed8592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      podcasts are like this.

    • @roel.vinckens
      @roel.vinckens 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Iancreed8592 Good point. It's true that in general they haven't been invaded yet by commercial lobotomy.

  • @justinhopper5941
    @justinhopper5941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +523

    Paul schrader is a legendary writer. It blows my mind how he was never even nominated for an Oscar for raging bull or taxi driver.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Didn’t play the Hollyweird game.

    • @roel.vinckens
      @roel.vinckens 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      A true original nominated for the Oscars? That would be against their first rule.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@roel.vinckens not so much in the 70s/80s, lots of great films. But Schrader was a maverick.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ken m and do both badly

    • @thrillofbattle3801
      @thrillofbattle3801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Too real

  • @esquibelle
    @esquibelle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    I worked at Paramount when Paul Schrader had an office there. I used to have long crazy conversations w him about Calvinism & Sam Fuller & everything under the son relating to movies. I was all of 24 years old & Paul was already a legend for having written Taxi Driver. I remember his blazing intelligence. This clip reminds me that Hollywood doesn't appreciate this kind of intellect.. He was so much more intelligent than any of the "suits" on the lot & studio heads I worked with. Since I'd gone to UCLA film school for 4 years, he enjoyed talking to me since I knew who his personalized license plate referred to. He had a silver Jaguar with a license plate that read Ozu. If you are a fan of Taxi Driver & have never seen Rolling Thunder check it out. Schrader outdid himself on that one but the studio did not want to touch it w a ten foot pole or promote it for fear of inciting accusations of racism [anti-Latino].. Great movie w Oscar-calibre performance from William Devane. Peace & happy 2021.

    • @meldtoys5154
      @meldtoys5154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." - Camus ... If there is no God in your philosophy, you haven't realized your religion. Mishima and Andy Kaufman!

    • @debrachambers1304
      @debrachambers1304 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which son?

  • @honklerfinkelstein2113
    @honklerfinkelstein2113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +475

    -no overbearing audience
    -calm, on topic conversation
    -no gimmicks
    -charismatic host
    That is good TV

    • @SkullOfTheAbyss
      @SkullOfTheAbyss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Still a misrepresentation of Mishima. The Jonathan Bowden lecture on Mishima is more powerful and honest, and gives more cultural context. I recommend finding it here on YT if you still have an interest in YM 10 months later.

    • @honklerfinkelstein2113
      @honklerfinkelstein2113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SkullOfTheAbyss yeah thx for the recommendation

    • @meldtoys5154
      @meldtoys5154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      " ...when life turns to art ... " paraphrasing Paul.

    • @patriciahayes2664
      @patriciahayes2664 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's the kind of TV that I miss.

    • @dimajo3057
      @dimajo3057 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SkullOfTheAbyss Thank you.

  • @Andy97K
    @Andy97K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +408

    What a brilliant conversation. So focused on the subject matter. Cavett was a step ahead of everyone else.

    • @br5448
      @br5448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ahead and everyone else dropped the ball and left us in the wasteland of USA conversation

    • @waynemontpetit8181
      @waynemontpetit8181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes he was. I've realized his brilliance and dry humor as I've aged. 😊

    • @thrillofbattle3801
      @thrillofbattle3801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@waynemontpetit8181 #Truth

    • @rickdeckard1075
      @rickdeckard1075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      everything is scripted, mishima's life and death was a protest against this

    • @kanyefuck7018
      @kanyefuck7018 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was always trailing Ali.

  • @corbinmarkey466
    @corbinmarkey466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    I was trying to find some quality Schrader interviews, and I shouldn't even be shocked to discover that Dick Cavett did one with him. Who doesn't think this guy had the greatest talk show ever?

    • @waynemontpetit8181
      @waynemontpetit8181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Fallon, Kimmel, and their contemporaries couldn't hold Dick's jockstrap.

    • @nhmooytis7058
      @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I loved Cavett, I’m 68.

    • @gravenewworld6521
      @gravenewworld6521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      NHMO OYTIS same here, but I’m 23

    • @muditmalhotra86
      @muditmalhotra86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gravenewworld6521 same here, but i'm 19 :D

    • @gravenewworld6521
      @gravenewworld6521 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      mudit malhotra 😂

  • @lawsonj39
    @lawsonj39 4 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    Mishima is one of the best films by an American director, ever.

    • @Wapak95
      @Wapak95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      One of the best films ever made.

    • @jonasseorum5471
      @jonasseorum5471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      most of the best films are made by americans.

    • @angelusvastator1297
      @angelusvastator1297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Quite ironic

    • @whatname4613
      @whatname4613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@jonasseorum5471 how's life,in your bubble?

    • @allensnea9335
      @allensnea9335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jonasseorum5471 no

  • @roel.vinckens
    @roel.vinckens 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Schrader was most definitely the man for the job. His insight into the complexity of Mishima is beyond jugement or veneration. A great man.

  • @oscarandrade6024
    @oscarandrade6024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I bumped into "Mishima" movie when I was a teenager, and then rewatched it at the film school I attended. A masterpiece in so many ways. The different color palettes that were chosen to depict his memories, the present day of his death, and his novels. I still listen to the soundtrack composed by Phillip Glass which was so ahead of the minimalist music that were later composed for Amélie and The Piano. Mishima obsessions with San Sebastián, his grandmother, his right-wing political thougths, the painful view of beauty... I think is one of the best biopics I have seen. Then I read some of his books. The Golden Pavilion" being my favourite and "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea". Makes me wanna watch the movie again. I'm currently discovering Dick Cavett since I'm from Colombia, South America, and never heard of him. What a great guy, so open to different ideas and sincerely interested in his guests.

    • @zenpaganwarrior
      @zenpaganwarrior 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And Cavett being from Nebraska, no less. He did attend Yale Univ., but a real Midwestern persona.

    • @likearollingstone007
      @likearollingstone007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought he was English lol

  • @spb7883
    @spb7883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The level of intelligence and maturity is exceedingly rare for American television, then or now. And 19:50 - what delicious irony in retrospect.

    • @jasondyer8259
      @jasondyer8259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Absolutely. It amazing how much we've been dumb downed over the past 25 years.

    • @JohnRBIV
      @JohnRBIV 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      totally insane to compare the two

    • @spb7883
      @spb7883 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      John To compare what two?

    • @JohnRBIV
      @JohnRBIV 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      spb 78 uhh sorry that's not how i meant to phrase it, to compare talk shows today and in the past, maybe it was just the Dick Cavett show though, idk

    • @jchang76
      @jchang76 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@JohnRBIV I know! Even the so called "documentaries" that are made today are utter crap! Old PBS and old BBC docs are great! From the 1960s on. Even the BBC has had to dumb down to compete with all the cable channels in the UK. It is so sad!

  • @leadbellymidnightangel
    @leadbellymidnightangel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Much respect to Schrader for taking the time to truly understand Mishima and his ideals although being a bit complex. Especially compared to someone like Oliver Stone's take on Morrison, Schrader knew how to make a genuine biopic

  • @shalashaskalives
    @shalashaskalives 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Isn't it incredible to think that this kind of intellectual discourse could once took place on a mainstream talk show. Even scientific/ nature documentaries of the 70s/ 80s had far more bite, and were filled with more technical information than now; I'm thinking of Attenborough's 'Life on Earth' as an example.

  • @Retrostar619
    @Retrostar619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Seeing this level of discussion on a mainstream talk show feels unthinkable today. It's diverted away to podcasts nowadays, and even then you have to search out the gems.

  • @nhmooytis7058
    @nhmooytis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Actual intelligent conversation by people of substance. I’m 68 and was a big Cavett fan!

    • @PontoLyone
      @PontoLyone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm 28 and I'm a big fan

  • @BaldBerlitzBoy
    @BaldBerlitzBoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A film that to this day has not been matched in the filmography of Yukio Mishima, a masterpiece that will stand alone.

  • @diaspo
    @diaspo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    Schrader kind of faded into cinema history, in part due to his Kafkaesque approach to film making. He was a master of conveying nihilism and futility in his movies, which tended to frustrate critics with their blurred and inconclusive narratives. His fascination with Mishima's hyperbole is a perfect reflection of his own artistic ambiguity. Like Mishima, Schrader tended towards the non-linear and inconclusive. Like Mishima, Schrader crafted uncomfortably haunting depictions of the human condition.

    • @GadgetyMV
      @GadgetyMV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      "Schrader... was a master of conveying nihilism and futility" Did this change, as he's still alive, still making films?

    • @davidec.4021
      @davidec.4021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As the last century’s masters did so damn well. If you think about it, such great depictions of the tormented and deepest sides of the human nature were explored and illustrated until a few decades ago... the different approach now or even the different interests is very interesting. Quite disheartening sometimes. But yeah, he’s up there with the great masters of consciousness’ depiction for me

    • @brettthebad
      @brettthebad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marietta, NPR's Terry Gross interviewed him, last year I think.

    • @marshallzane7735
      @marshallzane7735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He had a comeback with First Reformed

    • @ianbauer4703
      @ianbauer4703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nope, Schrader still writes, directs, and produces to this day.

  • @MrAAAmanbeef
    @MrAAAmanbeef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is an absolutely brilliant conversation. Compelling and well researched. This is what talk shows and interviews should be about.

  • @alexandermccarthy
    @alexandermccarthy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Oh look, articulate, informed individuals discussing topical content.

  • @YoMTV_Raps
    @YoMTV_Raps 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love Paul Schrader, glad to see this classic interview up.

  • @lurchlocker89
    @lurchlocker89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So glad there's a few quality Dick Cavett interviews on TH-cam. Always thought he was a masterful host: understated humour, dignified, makes his guest feel comfortable and rarely (if ever) appears to be intellectually out of his depth with his guests. Great to hear Paul Schrader mention John Donne too - the Nick Cave of the 17th century!

  • @JohnIrvin-g8o
    @JohnIrvin-g8o 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This interview alone casts a much better explanation about Mishima than most of the channels because many of them are practically romanticizing him without questioning whether his beliefs are any good for this society. He was a deeply troubled man who was a brilliant artist and I would say to anyone be careful of whom you praise.

    • @Katnip452
      @Katnip452 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Troubled? Then you don’t get Mishima at all. Anyone who’s read Sun And Steel or Patriotism or Runaway Horses would immediately understand he wanted to die while still young and fetishized hara-kiri. He’d been successful from a young age and was pretty jaded at 45. He wanted to make a big scene and die in a theatrical way and got what he wanted.

  • @matthewcoombs3282
    @matthewcoombs3282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    15:30 British viewer here. No Dick not offended at all. I have often thought the British and Japanese shared many manners. Great interview. Sadly in both the USA and UK it would be rare to find a mainstream TV show discussing a figure like Mishima today with some intelligence.

    • @jchang76
      @jchang76 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's SO sad! As an American, it used to be an automatic to turn to the BBC mad documentaries and programs to see something with some intelligence, but now, since they have to compete with the crappy cable channels, even the docs are dumber down to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The saddest thing!

  • @D_isco_D_ancer
    @D_isco_D_ancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fascinating conversation. Dick Cavett's success was to let the guest express himself freely.

  • @zenpaganwarrior
    @zenpaganwarrior 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting and very appropriate that this aired on the 15th anniversary of Mishima's death. Thank you for preserving and sharing intelligent TV, as rare an artifact as it is!

  • @markcarey67
    @markcarey67 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm glad we have Dick Cavett's old segments on the internet now because he was the only interviewer from that era who compared to the best of today's long form podcasts. I must have watched every interview of his with Orson Welles at least a dozen times.

  • @Sadgamer-143
    @Sadgamer-143 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Dick Cavett : on point
    Jimmy Kimmel : did you dye your Arm pit hairs?

    • @tomitstube
      @tomitstube 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      awe, does jimmy kimmel call out your cult leader trump?

    • @Sadgamer-143
      @Sadgamer-143 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@tomitstube no man. Jimmy asked this question to the once upon a time in Hollywood actress

    • @tomitstube
      @tomitstube 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sadgamer-143 and what was her answer?

    • @iVenge
      @iVenge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The two individuals and their shows are entirely different in their intent.

    • @bingusbongoose2959
      @bingusbongoose2959 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@tomitstube kick the politics mane no government cares about us anyway

  • @charliejones3973
    @charliejones3973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I'm 22 and last year I discovered Mishima, what an incredible man with such a pained passion burning inside him.

    • @TheSpiritOfTheTimes
      @TheSpiritOfTheTimes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're old enough to be mature enough to know better.

    • @charliejones3973
      @charliejones3973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@TheSpiritOfTheTimes I'm also mature enough to hold my own opinion based on what falls before me. He wasn't a perfect man, thats not what I'm implying, I'm simply stating that his whole story, his entire arc, is one of sheer beauty.

    • @paul-ky5xw
      @paul-ky5xw ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TheSpiritOfTheTimeswhat do you intend to say with this kind of Statement?

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was a genius artist but a fool in the political arena. And a horribly insecure little man. Fascinating subject for a film though.

    • @earlpipe9713
      @earlpipe9713 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@silversnail1413 To me, his political stances seem more performative protest against how he perceived the current order of things around him, than any notion held by him of having the answers for the best path forward politically. Even any fascist leanings he expressed would be the necessarily transgressive nature of actual art

  • @FabrizioBianchi
    @FabrizioBianchi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Watched the movie yesterday here in Copenhagen, definitely an experience and it looks strangely modern in its photography and set design. Produced by Coppola and Lucas. Also, great music by Philip Glass.

  • @elliotagain7731
    @elliotagain7731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Awesome gem of an interview Schrader is a great writer 🤘

  • @mohamednevim1124
    @mohamednevim1124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Amazing intellectually advanced talk!

  • @mikzin630
    @mikzin630 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These are the first good takes I've seen from Americans on Mishima. Haven't seen the movie yet, but it seems like it was made by a great mind.

  • @cheeseandonions9558
    @cheeseandonions9558 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fascinating interview! I love when smart people talking about smart matters!

  • @jackoneste128
    @jackoneste128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "When the culture itself is insane then the man most opposed to it -but who bothers to explain himself- will appear schizophrenic. He may or may not be but it won't be decided by the culture itself. Both sides are unreliable it seems. I myself refuse to choose a narrative. But I will live as if I've chosen sides," the inmate said. - Sanction

  • @rubico1894
    @rubico1894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    12:05 These photos have been released under the book called "Death of a Man"

  • @irie1tes
    @irie1tes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Whats even close to this level of programming than a podcast in this day and age

  • @AbbasiOfficial
    @AbbasiOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an intelligent talk show, thanks for uploading

  • @davidadams6863
    @davidadams6863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was a fascinating interview.
    Thank you for sharing it.

  • @Eire_Go_Deo
    @Eire_Go_Deo ปีที่แล้ว

    That was truly marvellous viewing. Paul Schrader is a truly intelligent visionary. Dick was a wonderful host as always. I adore this channel; it gives me my regular dose of much needed intellectual, witty and informative conversation that chat shows these days DO NOT HAVE (Jimmy Fallon par example).

  • @matheusfrota95
    @matheusfrota95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow, awesome interview ! Really liked the point about the importance of art in filling the antisocial part of our nature, kind of a tool for the shadow work... Just like sports.

    • @WanderingNasi
      @WanderingNasi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's a very accurate observation. As the times become more difficult to navigate socially, art and music become even more powerful tools of communication

    • @matheusfrota95
      @matheusfrota95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@WanderingNasi Appreciate it , Sir.

  • @martinhall932
    @martinhall932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "I wanted to make the film about the writer anyway because if I want to do a movie about a homosexual or a right-winger there's plenty of those but there's only one Mishima so I did it about the writing, when art turns to life." Yes, focus on what is unique without pigeon holing and generalizing.

  • @cessnaace
    @cessnaace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just watched "Mishima" today on LaserDisc. The LD was released in 1998 in the U.S. Although the LaserDisc format was huge in Japan, it wasn't released there on LD. Plenty of time for it to have been, as the film came out in 1985 and the LD format existed from 1978 to 2001.

  • @TreehouseINC
    @TreehouseINC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Paul has a really deep understanding and interpretation of mishimas life, but i cant imagine this interview without Dick Cavett leading it along. Don't know if someone like jimmy fallon would want this conversation on his show lmao.

  • @closcer3950
    @closcer3950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dick Cavett was the best interviewer ever

  • @justincastillogayray
    @justincastillogayray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mishima opened October 4, 1985. $5 million budget. box office just over half a million.

  • @alexanderzhukov3773
    @alexanderzhukov3773 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best biopics and book adaptations ever made

  • @ComedyJakob
    @ComedyJakob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dick Cavett was an exceptionally good interviewer

  • @ekurisona663
    @ekurisona663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    'i'm sorry, i've offended another empire-'

  • @jerryrichardson2799
    @jerryrichardson2799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoyed this, I saw the movie a while back, interesting to hear what Schrader had to say about it, a unique movie.

  • @1997residente
    @1997residente ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Paul Schrader is the most fascinating writer that ever lived because he think he is fighting demons. But the demons are just bisexuality

  • @user-rd6vf7xk1x
    @user-rd6vf7xk1x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Never understood Mishima as much I wanted to until I heard Schrader talk about him

  • @AlejandroHache
    @AlejandroHache 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for uploading this

  • @jenskapper6007
    @jenskapper6007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God damn. Both men are at the top of the heep. Schrader still is, but Dick Cavett was SO fucking good.

    • @cheeseandonions9558
      @cheeseandonions9558 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And you look at Shraeder and he looks half Elton John and half Andy Richter... but then he starts talking and it's just magic

  • @isabellaofthedesert
    @isabellaofthedesert ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I dont think Michima was nuts. Nor is the wish for death all that odd. He just spoke of these things instead of drowning in alcoholism, drugs, consumerism, and adoration of the US. Samurai blood...he was rightly proud

    • @autofocus4556
      @autofocus4556 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was just a narcissist.

  • @moimoimoiiiiiii32221
    @moimoimoiiiiiii32221 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite of his is First Reformed but Mishima is cinematographically absolutely stunning and unique

  • @Blues444
    @Blues444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I remember seeing this conversation when it first aired.

    • @TheTalkWatcher
      @TheTalkWatcher 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What year was that?

    • @Blues444
      @Blues444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheTalkWatcher
      1985
      dickcavettshow.com/index.php/component/zoo/item/10-18-1985
      The film "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" was released in that year.

    • @geokaker9630
      @geokaker9630 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ok boomer

    • @geokaker9630
      @geokaker9630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sorry haha

    • @Blues444
      @Blues444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@geokaker9630
      No problem snowflake

  • @acchaladka
    @acchaladka 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Have the photos referred to mid-way through this, ever been released? This interview itself is now almost 35 years old.

    • @nataliiamosh5101
      @nataliiamosh5101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Check out the book “The Death of a Man” (Rizzoli)

  • @johnscott6481
    @johnscott6481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome.reading runaway horses currently

    • @mardizi8127
      @mardizi8127 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did you like it?? Did you read the first part of the tetralogy, too? Haru no Yuki it is, I don't know its english name, I read it in German. I really loved that first book, it was delicate and dreamy, with spikes on the edges. Honba (Runaway horses) was an incredibly powerful thing, I felt like I was inside a young mans developing muscles :D

  • @jrangamar1261
    @jrangamar1261 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a gem

  • @davidec.4021
    @davidec.4021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Well this was great

  • @ToLWaM
    @ToLWaM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Our culture has failed. This is an amazing interview

  • @z-e-r-o-
    @z-e-r-o- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    「日本人は世界の人々と全く同じだ、というと彼らは怒るが、世界の人々と全く異なる、というと彼らは喜ぶ」という指摘は一面的でありながらも示唆的。

  • @Toracube
    @Toracube 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yet another reason why Cavett was the best at what he did.

  • @witchcraft7934
    @witchcraft7934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's really surprising to see how easily Dick Cavett finds a way to relate to something not just foreign but repulsive to the average American of that time, and I have tremendous respect for him as a human being. I'll bet he'd be open to taking hallucinogens.

    • @jwilliams2965
      @jwilliams2965 ปีที่แล้ว

      read his book! He got high with janis joplin jumped in the pool and ruined his expensive watch!

  • @alpineflauge909
    @alpineflauge909 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    world class content

  • @519djw6
    @519djw6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The movie "Mishima" came out in 1985, and I have been living in the Tokyo area since 1981. I recall that no *major* Japanese movie theater dared to show the film because they feared violence from the far-right, who at the time still used to drive through the city streets in sound-trucks blaring military music, as if World War II were still going on. Fortunately, you don't see, or hear, these nutcases much anymore. Excellent interview with Paul Schrader, anyway.

    • @galvingay8946
      @galvingay8946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      519DJW Japan is still occupied by the United States military.

    • @craigharrison1274
      @craigharrison1274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don’t those “far right” speakers still persist in Japan? Unless I am mistaken this story sounds dubious.

    • @519djw6
      @519djw6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@craigharrison1274 I'm sure there are still tiny cells of them, but you don't see or hear them in their sound-trucks anymore. Moreover, nobody paid any attention to them, even when they were around. On the other hand, no one has the guts to "offend" these crazies--even today, when they are no longer contributing to noise pollution with their martial music.

    • @jorndoff
      @jorndoff 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@519djw6 I saw and heard their sound trucks in the 90's Shibuya.

    • @Varlwyll
      @Varlwyll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everyone in Japan is far right compared to an average American

  • @David-Field.Stuff01
    @David-Field.Stuff01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Very interesting interview. Such a shame that long form conversation seems to have gone out of fashion these days.

    • @PeteBMr
      @PeteBMr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Have you ever heard of a podcast dude?

    • @fryewerk
      @fryewerk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For sure, in depth, free form and intelligent conversation is alive and well in podcasts, where there is no hard clock denoting commercial breaks and program lengths.

  • @TheWolfgangfritz
    @TheWolfgangfritz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why so hard to understand; the Samurai Cult in Japan's history always incorporated seppuku! He probably saw that committing this act was a quick convincing way to associate with the Code of the Samurai.

  • @RobertJamesChinneryH
    @RobertJamesChinneryH 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mishimi...too brilliant for talk shows

  • @SomeShows
    @SomeShows 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Adam is looking a lot younger and, dare I say, virile here .

  • @JC-wg5xn
    @JC-wg5xn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:15 I disagree, there are photos of Mishima barbell squatting.

  • @briankool1
    @briankool1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:20 i am looking at a picturing of mishima squating right now lmao

  • @bsdgffishtuna5186
    @bsdgffishtuna5186 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    awesome fucking movie; and the soundtrack. jebuss murphy.

  • @Whoknowsuknow
    @Whoknowsuknow ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mishma was an interesting dude.

  • @1337snake888
    @1337snake888 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dick Cavett is so sharp he said 54 instead of 45 and turned it into a joke about asian languages reading right to left

  • @proarcher46
    @proarcher46 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this guy should go on the adam friedland show

  • @markwardel6751
    @markwardel6751 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliance.....

  • @nicholasprescott1150
    @nicholasprescott1150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His death is very close to the plot of one his novels Runaway Horses

  • @spoogerification
    @spoogerification ปีที่แล้ว

    When the soul is dead all that’s left is performance

  • @ShakamotoKyoujyu
    @ShakamotoKyoujyu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was pleasantly surprised by this interview and Shrader's perspectives. Mishima is now a lightning rod attracing the praise and obsession of alt-righ, masculinist, fascists. Mention of Mishima is again popular but the people doing it are generally bad news. Here Shrader and Cavett both do helpful thing by connecting the views of Mishima fans and (cultural nationalist) literary critics of his time to popular nativist conceptions of Japanese exceptionalism which continues to dominate--though these two men do awkwardly naturalize that exceptionalism with cultural determinism and orientalist reductionism, lol. Fascinating stuff.

    • @TheGuyInTheCheapSeats
      @TheGuyInTheCheapSeats 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is this supposed to be english?

    • @ShakamotoKyoujyu
      @ShakamotoKyoujyu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats u ever read any books?

    • @TheGuyInTheCheapSeats
      @TheGuyInTheCheapSeats ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, me read books, good books. And me recognize psuedo-intellectual gibberish when me see it.

  • @Bsoftproductions
    @Bsoftproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Anyone who’s interested in Yukio Mishima should also read Kenzaburo Oe’s “The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away,” it’s a really severe repudiation of mishima’s views/life and I think it helps better illustrate the reasons for the criticism Mishima faces in Japan.

    • @ShakamotoKyoujyu
      @ShakamotoKyoujyu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mishima's nationalism and chauvinism has no place in our world

    • @Bsoftproductions
      @Bsoftproductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ShakamotoKyoujyu I definitely agree with that.

    • @Stephen-so9oi
      @Stephen-so9oi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ShakamotoKyoujyu I will keep it alive

    • @ShakamotoKyoujyu
      @ShakamotoKyoujyu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stephen-so9oi u r dum

  • @stevengallanter665
    @stevengallanter665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    1:48 Coke!

  • @trelkel3805
    @trelkel3805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Great movie about a deeply disturbed man who was engulfed by his internal fantasies and disconnection from the world. Sometimes I wonder if he painted himself into a corner with his acolytes and his grand plan and he had to commit Seppuku whether he totally wanted to or not, guess we will never know.

    • @Varlwyll
      @Varlwyll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The whole thing was a stage for him to die on and he probably orchestrated it so that he'd be able to die the dramatic, brilliant death he always wanted.

    • @Bsoftproductions
      @Bsoftproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think his followers were so enthralled by him that they would’ve been relieved in a way if he had backed down. But he himself couldn’t see that out, and Idk if he would’ve taken it if he had

  • @megazoned3973
    @megazoned3973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I was dating a girl who had a book autographed by Mishima. I don’t know where she got it from. She said she would give it to me when I learned to read a whole Japanese book. We eventually broke up. But thinking back , some of her feelings she shared about Japan’s role in WWII now seem to align with someone who would seek a Mishima autographed book.

    • @jikorijo4516
      @jikorijo4516 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool. Do you regret not getting the book?

    • @megazoned3973
      @megazoned3973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@jikorijo4516 no. It wouldn’t have been worth staying another minute in that relationship.

    • @jonsegerros
      @jonsegerros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      based

  • @pepelemoko01
    @pepelemoko01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Schader was right about one thing, all the "loose cannons" out there.

    • @Wapak95
      @Wapak95 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Foreshadowing

  • @BarryDuffield
    @BarryDuffield 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also the brilliant Rolling Thunder.

  • @crumbb_m
    @crumbb_m 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Paul Schrader breathing like Tony Soprano before it was cool 😎

  • @dvonne403
    @dvonne403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    why did he open the interview with "why schrader?"

    • @ShootMeMovieReviews
      @ShootMeMovieReviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think he simply means that he wouldn't be the first person most would guess would be the one to tell this story.

    • @mikephalen3162
      @mikephalen3162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShootMeMovieReviews I took it to mean, "Why did Schrader undertake this project?"

  • @martinpavluvcik5433
    @martinpavluvcik5433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fantastic intelect

  • @ekurisona663
    @ekurisona663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    sure would have been nice to see some commercials in there-

  • @phantomfire8228
    @phantomfire8228 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3:50

  • @jakehxllxws259
    @jakehxllxws259 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is that Adam Friedland?

  • @renumeratedfrog
    @renumeratedfrog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they amplified the voice to make him appear in control

  • @rhysie9983
    @rhysie9983 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Paul is one of the greatest human beings of his time. I love him more deeply than some of my friends.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i'm sure your image of him is very beautiful.

  • @roygfs
    @roygfs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's one way of framing Mishima's death.

  • @jachead
    @jachead 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That little women joke was hilarious

  • @Cruzcontrol60
    @Cruzcontrol60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mishima never forgave himself for missing the opportunity to die for the Emperor toward the end of WWII. He faked Tuberculosis and did not have to serve, so he missed the fate of many common Japanese Men who did heed the call and died for their Emperor. Guilt was the well spring of his talent.

    • @dwightstjohn6927
      @dwightstjohn6927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He had a brother. My father-in-law was sequestered with his brother during WW2, when Japan's plans were to administrate China, and rounded up Chinese students to indoctrinate them. My FIL didn't tell them he already spoke Japanese, as one of his grandparents spoke it well. He was imprisoned in Japan after they found him with some of Mao's writings He later graduated from Toyko Institue, (as did my wife) and returned to China, only to do eight years in re-education camps there. He also did time in the USA leasing a plane to return to China. I heard the strange story in grade 9 in between the folk and rock songs on the radio, and it stuck in my mind. He's considered the father of supply chain economics, LJ Lui, but his being in political prison in THREE countries must be an Olympic record.

    • @prkp7248
      @prkp7248 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dwightstjohn6927 many polish socialist had simmilar multiprison record - first when Poland was under occupaiton of Imperial Russia, Prussia and Austro-Hungary, then after I world war and quick democracy years, they were jailed by military goverment known as sanacja, then, when II WW broke out many of the ended in German and soviet camps and then, after the war, many of them were again captured after getting back to country by local communist goverment.
      Kazimierz Pużak, socialist who was prissoner of tsarist Russia after II WW was captured by and flown into soviet Russia, and then flown to Poland, where he died in prison, probably because guards thrown him of the stairs.

  • @v1deo.hunter.d317
    @v1deo.hunter.d317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Love the movie but I do think its bizarre that he cast such an old looking guy to play Mishima which Mishima would have totally hated because he was a huge narcissist and wasn't accurate historically, mishima never looked so old

    • @creatief_met_kaas
      @creatief_met_kaas 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first actor (whom I can't remember the name of right now) had to decline. So then they went with Ken Ogata, who was a very well established actor. Regardless of his looks, I think he captures the essence of Mishima brilliantly :)

    • @Bsoftproductions
      @Bsoftproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was really hard to get a japanese actor to play mishima. Ken Ogata was the best for the job who would. I see it as maybe how mishima saw himself, not as how we saw him to be.

    • @v1deo.hunter.d317
      @v1deo.hunter.d317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bsoftproductions well i have to disagree with that last part, i think mishima thought of himself as this adonis and would be really offended with being potrayed as an older guy

    • @Bsoftproductions
      @Bsoftproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@v1deo.hunter.d317 Mishima was grotesquely insecure, all of it was overcompensation. I don't know as though he saw himself as an Adonis so much as he saw himself as chasing Adonis

    • @Bsoftproductions
      @Bsoftproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@v1deo.hunter.d317 I do agree that he'd be really offended by that portrayal though but I think it'd be because it hits so close to where his insecurities lie

  • @paulgalligan1916
    @paulgalligan1916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'd say he did the "lines" share alright..

  • @ginosuarez5941
    @ginosuarez5941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Agree, it seems as almost everything area of social life was not so much scripted, sensationalized and manipulated by the producers of these shows. Nowdays with a few exceptions, talk shows and the like are nothing but trash talk, comedial and brainless. I dont watch them anymore since they insult audience's intelligence. Sad spectacle.

  • @fionnghallselma7193
    @fionnghallselma7193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Funny that Mishima is more sane than those who psychologise him as a sort of schizophrenic.

    • @deadby15
      @deadby15 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean his political stance?

    • @fionnghallselma7193
      @fionnghallselma7193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deadby15 his views generally