Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Page #6

to go all the way with her.

Do you love her?

Of course not.

Isn't that a little extreme?

On the other hand,

we've got to be nice to her.

But don't go too far.

Just find a way to cancel the loan.

Don't worry about money.

I got a good part.

You did?

Which role?

It's a surprise.

You've got the body

of a matador.

I can't even go to the gym.

Those guys at the theater

are even worse.

They're still having

the same boring discussions...

about the "wounds of art. "

I'd like to show them...

your wounds.

They don't even know

that art is a shadow...

that stage blood...

is not enough.

3- Action

When duty and sympathy

Are on the scales

A man always finds

Duty heavier

O merciful Kannon

My childhood friend

You can see

Right into my heart

The lion and the peony

Roar on my back

There it is.

We're a little early.

Swing around the loop.

What if something

goes wrong?

Just stick to the plan.

Runaway Horses

Published 1969

Has anything changed?

You're still going

through with it? Why?

Don't you understand?

The emperor's face

is not pleased.

Japan is losing her soul.

But why you?

I was lucky enough

to be chosen.

Why did you pull out

of the tournament?

I lost interest.

Because you win so easily?

I lost interest

in wooden swords, sensei.

They have no real power.

You're old enough

for a sword of steel?

Yes, sensei.

How about your team

and your school?

They can't win without you.

Report to your dorm, Isao.

Contemplate the danger of a man

who thinks only of himself.

Excuse me, Lieutenant Hori.

I heard about

your kendo exercises.

We expect

great things from you.

You wrote this?

How many of you?

Twenty.

How will you do this?

In a single stroke.

We'll assassinate

the leaders of capitalism.

Burn the Bank of Japan.

At dawn, law will restore power

to the emperor.

What will happen

to your group?

At sunrise, on a cliff,

paying reverence to the sun,

looking down on the sea,

we'll commit seppuku.

We'd never ask anyone

to join us in death.

Who would you kill?

If we could kill ten,

Marquis Nagasaki,

Baron Shinkawa -

If only five?

Premier Saito -

Only one?

Kurahara.

Japan will be purified.

What do you want from me?

An airplane to drop leaflets.

Explosives to knock out

the power station.

You have firearms?

We'll only use swords.

Our best weapon is purity.

And you schoolboys

can use swords?

Words are a deceit.

But action is never deceitful.

" The harmony of pen and sword. "

This samurai motto

used to be a way of life.

Now it's forgotten.

Can art and action

still be united?

Today this harmony can only occur

in a brief flash, a single moment.

The average age for men

in the Bronze Age was 18,

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