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New York\u2019s Japan Society is re-staging a series of plays by Yukio Mishima this autumn for the late writer\u2019s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n
Though discussion of his legacy is often dominated by the manner of his death \u2014 Mishima died by , or ritual suicide by samurai sword, after leading a failed 1970 coup d\u2019\u00e9tat \u2014 the Japan Society\u2019s treatment of his works in is \u201csurprisingly light and dancing,\u201d The New York Timeswrote.<\/p>\n
In particular, the Society\u2019s version of s \u2014 Mishima\u2019s playful retelling of a Japanese tale about death \u2014 features Daft Punk, colorful lights, and a singing Moon.<\/p>\n
\u201cMishima might be mad at me for saying so<\/a>,\u201d the choreographer told the Times, \u201cbut this story shows his cute side.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York\u2019s Japan Society is re-staging a series of plays by Yukio Mishima this autumn for the late writer\u2019s 100th birthday. Though discussion of his legacy is often dominated by the manner of his death \u2014 Mishima died by , or ritual suicide by samurai sword, after leading a failed 1970 coup d\u2019\u00e9tat \u2014 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1993103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[360575,360578,26630,360576,360577,360574],"class_list":["post-1993102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-100th-birthday","tag-coup-detat","tag-japan","tag-japan-society","tag-ritual-suicide","tag-yukio-mishima"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/New-Yorks-Japan-Society-Mishima-revival-series-showcases-writers-playful.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}