I highly recommend anyone see “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters”, Schrader’s take on one of the more enigmatic figures in Japanese history. Ultrarightist proponent of the code of Bushido who was also a Friend of Dorothy. As TLR pointed out, however, he was still, despite his lifestyle, more of a man than 99% of the mama’s boys who call themselves men in Japan.
One of the things that strikes me as most odd about Mishima is really something odd about Japan. Here was a guy who put together a private army, the “Tatenokai”, dedicated to protecting the Emperor, and instead of people saying, “Wait a minute, what’s going on here?”, his army was allowed to train with the Japan Self Defense Force.