{"id":2123608,"date":"2025-10-29T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123608"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:38:23","slug":"paul-schrader-on-mishima-finally-screening-at-tokyo-film-festival-and-why-he-thinks-people-will-pay-to-watch-ai-actors-use-a-bit-of-brando-and-kevin-costn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paul-schrader-on-mishima-finally-screening-at-tokyo-film-festival-and-why-he-thinks-people-will-pay-to-watch-ai-actors-use-a-bit-of-brando-and-kevin-costn\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader on \u2018Mishima\u2019 Finally Screening at Tokyo Film Festival and Why He Thinks \u2018People Will Pay\u2019 to Watch AI Actors: \u2018Use a Bit of Brando and Kevin Costner and Make an Exciting Movie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Tokyo for the screening of his 1985 biopic \u201cMishima: A Life In Four Chapters<\/a>\u201d at the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival, Paul Schrader<\/a> was an upbeat mood when he walked the opening night red carpet, telling an interviewer that he thought of Japan as his \u201csecond home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forty years ago, however, the organizers of the first TIFF declined to include the film in its program, with objections from Mishima<\/a>\u2019s widow to its depictions of the famed right-leaning writer\u2019s homosexuality a major factor. But talking with Schrader at a coffee shop in the Ana<\/a> InterContinental Hotel, the long-ago controversy, which kept the film from being released in Japan for four decades, seemed if not forgotten, forgiven. Also, he had much else on his mind, from the coming AI revolution to his latest projects.<\/p>\n

At age 79, the veteran director, who first came to international attention as the scriptwriter on Martin Scorsese<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Tokyo for the screening of his 1985 biopic \u201cMishima: A Life In Four Chapters\u201d at the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival, Paul Schrader was an upbeat mood when he walked the opening night red carpet, telling an interviewer that he thought of Japan as his \u201csecond home.\u201d Forty years ago, however, the organizers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123609,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2123608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Paul-Schrader-on-\u2018Mishima-Finally-Screening-at-Tokyo-Film-Festival.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123608","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=2123608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123608\/revisions\/2123610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}