Yukio Mishima

January 10, 2024
Playwright

Quick Facts

Yukio Mishima
Full Name Yukio Mishima
Occupation Playwright
Date Of Birth Jan 14, 1925(1925-01-14)
Age 99
Date Of Death 1970-11-25
Country Japan
Horoscope Capricorn

Yukio Mishima Biography

Name Yukio Mishima
Birthday Jan 14
Birth Year 1925
Birth Country Japan
Birth Sign Capricorn
Spouse Yoko Hiraoka

Yukio Mishima is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on January 14, 1925 in Japan. This Nobel Prize-nominated Japanese novelist is best known for his avant-garde works like The Sound of Waves, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Silk and Insight. He also wrote poetry and Kabuki plays and had a second career acting, bodybuilding, and modeling.

American filmmaker Paul Schrader directed Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a 1985 Mishima biopic., an American filmmaker, directed Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters (1985 Mishima biopic).

He married Yoko Sugiyama and they had a son, and a girl. He had many romantic relationships with men throughout his marriage.

Yukio Mishima Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Playwright
House Living in own house.

Yukio Mishima is one of the richest Playwright from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yukio Mishima 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His father prohibited him from writing and considered the practice “effeminate.” However, Mishima wrote many stories in his childhood and teenage years. He attended the University of Tokyo and worked briefly for the Finance Ministry of Japan before becoming a full time writer.

He was an actor in Yasuzo Masumura’s 1960 Japanese Mafia movie Afraid To Die.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Height 5 ft 4 in

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Who is Yukio Mishima Dating?

According to our records, Yukio Mishima married to Yoko Hiraoka. As of December 1, 2023, Yukio Mishima’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Yukio Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yukio Mishima celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.

Why did Yukio Mishima commit seppuku?

Mishima delivered a rousing speech to the young cadets but was unable to gain their respect or support. Seemingly anticipating the plot’s ultimate failure , he then committed seppuku.

Is Yukio Mishima controversial?

Yukio Mishima
Occupation| Novelist playwright poet short-story writer essayist critic

Why is Mishima so popular?

The reason for this is twofold: Mishima as a writer was extremely prolific, with thirty-four novels, almost two hundred short stories, seventy plays, and countless essays, poems, interviews, and more to his name—and this was all before his death at just 46.

Was Yukio Mishima a samurai?

Despite his success as a writer (Mishima was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize), he had always felt alienated from modern Japanese society. Born into an old samurai family , he had been taught to revere bushido (‘the way of the warrior’), with its emphasis on honour, courage and selflessness.

Does Japan still have seppuku?

Today, the high rate of suicide among the general population of Japan suggests that suicide under the right circumstances retains some degree of cultural sanctioning, but seppuku as a sanctioned social ritual has been phased out.

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