Patriotism (1966)

Directed by Yukio Mishima • Masaki Dômoto

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Yukio Mishima as Shinji Takeyama • Yoshiko Tsuruoka as Reiko

Japan • Drama • Romance

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1. or THE RITE OF LOVE AND DEATH

2. Based on the Short Story "PATRIOTISM" by YUKIO MISHIMA

3. Produced, Directed, Acted and Written by

4. Associate Producer

5. Associate Director

6. Director of Photography

7. Lieutenant Takeyama

8. Reiko, His Wife

9. In February 1936, Tokyo was placed under martial law

10. following a coup d'état executed by a group of young military officers.

11. They maintained that they were far more loyal to the emperor

12. than the corrupt cabinet members they murdered.

13. Lieutenant Takeyama was a member of this secret society,

14. but it was decided that he should not participate in the coup d'état.

15. The others did not want to implicate him,

16. because they knew how much he loved Reiko, his beautiful young bride.

17. It seemed at first that the coup had been successful,

18. but in a few days people began to look on it as a minor uprising

19. soon to be quelled by an imperial injunction.

20. Lieutenant Takeyama was still a member of the palace guard.

21. The time when he would have to fight against his comrades-in-arms,

22. to execute his closest friends as rebels, was drawing near.

23. The Rite of Love and Death takes place on the Japanese Noh stage.

24. Reiko, the lieutenant's wife, has seen in her husband's face

25. his resolution to die as he leaves for the palace

26. on the snowy morning following the coup d'état.

27. If he should fail to return alive, she is determined to follow him in death.

28. As she gathers the keepsakes she will leave behind for her parents and friends,

29. she calls up tender memories of her husband's love...

30. THE LIEUTENANT'S RETURN

31. Then, at midnight, the snow still falling,

32. Lieutenant Takeyama suddenly appears at the door.

33. The guard has been changed, and he explains that he is free until the morning,

34. when he must go to kill his comrades-in-arms.

35. "But I just can't do it! I can't!"

36. Takeyama, a dedicated soldier,

37. cannot bear the thought of killing his close friends

38. if he wishes to remain loyal to the emperor.

39. The contradiction appalls him.

40. As the descendant of a samurai family, the only honorable course left him

41. is to die by morning, to commit hara-kiri.

42. "I know how you feel," Reiko says quietly.

43. "And I will follow you wherever you go."

44. Takeyama is overjoyed.

45. "Thank you. We'll go together to another world then.

46. But please let me die first, and then you follow. I mustn't fail."

47. Their involuntary smiles reflect an unfathomable mutual trust.

48. Death is no longer terrifying.

49. Reiko feels as she did on her wedding night.

50. This is pure and passionate as a ritual conducted before the gods.

51. They are able for the first time in their lives

52. to reveal unabashedly their most secret desires and passions.

53. First the lieutenant and then Reiko,

54. who has lost all her shyness in the face of death,

55. bids loving farewell to every smallest detail of the other's flesh.

56. "LONG LIVE THE IMPERIAL FORCES!"

57. REIKO'S SUICIDE

58. THE END