New York’s Japan Society is re-staging a series of plays by Yukio Mishima this autumn for the late writer’s 100th birthday.
Though discussion of his legacy is often dominated by the manner of his death — Mishima died by , or ritual suicide by samurai sword, after leading a failed 1970 coup d’état — the Japan Society’s treatment of his works in is “surprisingly light and dancing,” The New York Timeswrote.
In particular, the Society’s version of s — Mishima’s playful retelling of a Japanese tale about death — features Daft Punk, colorful lights, and a singing Moon.
“Mishima might be mad at me for saying so,” the choreographer told the Times, “but this story shows his cute side.”
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