In this expressionist masterpiece, writer-director Paul Schrader harmonizes fractured sketches of Yukio Mishima's life, art and nationalism. | MUBI

Paul Schrader directed Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), a biographical film about the life and work of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. Schrader crafted the film by interweaving scenes from Mishima’s life with dramatizations of his novels, blending black-and-white and color cinematography to differentiate between the real and fictional worlds. It was a perfect way to handle telling this fascinating individual’s story, as the line between fiction and reality was getting blurry for him in hi