This post is about the 1984 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, and I would recommend watching that before this. This post contains full spoilers for that film, as well as for the film First Reformed. The contents of this post were originally written as my university dissertation, and have been minimally edited here …
Quick Review: Six Four
I recently worked my way through Hideo Yokoyama's crime thriller Six Four, which was just published in the UK after being a huge hit in Japan, and I just wanted to give some quick thoughts on it. For starters, it's worth qualifying what kind of mystery novel this is; it isn't a shinhonkaku mystery novel, although …