Patriotism

• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: War Drama
• Themes: Suicide
• Release Year: 1966
• Country: JP
• Run Time: 27 minutes

Plot

Thirty five years after all original prints of the film were purposefully destroyed, playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima's eerily prophetic tale of a disgraced naval officer who commits seppuku (ritual suicide} resurfaces thanks to a print struck from the original negative. Co-directed by Domoto Masaki, the film marked Mishima's sole foray into filmmaking, and serves as an unsettling prediction of the writer's own suicide. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide