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...accessible Western production--is a daunting one. And his use and integration of other media--photography, film and music--is both effective and inventive. The problems lie rather in a confusing story line and in the stiff, stylized acting that slowly deadens the strange and haunting power of Yukio Mishima's 1955 adaptation...
Banks and his actors are extremely intent on achieving a sense of unreality, an abstraction of performance, but they convey little of the direct humor and liveliness in Mishima's text...
...shot for. But to reach people, it's good the VCR is out there. I see first-run theaters as becoming the 'loss leader' for the VCR, like hard-cover books for the paperback industry or a tuna special for the grocery store." Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) is even more emphatic: "The times they are achangin'. We should ride the technical and social evolution and speak to the medium most preferred. If the dinosaurs don't like it, too bad for them...
...Mishima's "Yoroboshi" and "Kantan": Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge, Saturday...
Janus: John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, 661-3737, Mishima...