11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち, 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi) is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu. The film was based on the Mishima Incident, which was a failed coup d'etat attempt led by Yukio Mishima in 1970. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]

11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
Directed byKōji Wakamatsu
Produced byNoriko Ozaki
Kōji Wakamatsu
Written byMasayuki Kakegawa
StarringArata Iura
CinematographyYûsaku Mitsuwaka
Tomohiko Tsuji
Release date
  • 25 May 2012 (2012-05-25) (Cannes)
  • 2 June 2012 (2012-06-02) (Japan)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

[3]

  • Arata Iura as Yukio Mishima (the head of Tatenokai)
  • Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Masakatsu Morita (the second student leader of Tatenokai)
  • Takatsugu Iwama as Hiroyasu Koga (Tatenokai member)
  • Tasuku Nagaoka as Masayoshi Koga (Tatenokai member)
  • Suzunosuke as Masahiro Ogawa (Tatenokai member)
  • Soran Tamoto as Otoya Yamaguchi (the boy who killed Inejiro Asanuma)
  • Shinobu Terajima as Yoko Hiraoka (Mishima's wife)
  • Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Hiroshi Mochimaru (the first student leader of Tatenokai)
  • Shima Onishi as Kiyoshi Kuramochi (a Tatenokai member)
  • Hideo Nakaizumi as Kenichi Tanaka (a Tatenokai member)
  • Tomosuke Kasamatsu as Kazuhiko Nakatsuji (a Tatenokai member)
  • Yuki Hirano as Tomoaki Turuoka (a Tatenokai member)
  • Shinji Suzuki as Makatsu Sekikawa (a Tatenokai member and 龍笛 (Ryūteki) "Dragon flute" player)
  • Ichiro Hashimoto as Hidetoshi Saito (a Nihon Gakusei Domei member)
  • Motoki Ochiai as Hideaki Endo (a Tatenokai member, he engaged in Kuril Islands dispute (北方領土問題) with Morita)
  • Yuto Kobayashi as Shigeru Ueda (Morita's childhood friend)
  • Hanae Kan as Makiko (a Tatenokai member, Shigeru's sister)
  • Katsuyuki Shinohara as Ikarii, Lieutenant general (the principal of the Fuji school of Japan Self-Defense Forces)
  • Gô Jibiki as Takashi Fukuoka (an instructor of the Fuji school)
  • Ryushi Mizukami as Kiyokatsu Yamamoto (the manager of information education section of Investigation school of JSDF)
  • Ken Yoshizawa as Kanetoshi Mashita (the commandant the Ichigaya Camp- the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of JSDF)
  • Sanshiro Kobayashi as Hiroshi Funasaka (a former officer who presented the 刀 (Katana) "Japanese sword", 関の孫六 (Seki no Magoroku) "Celebrated sword which Magoroku made" to Mishima)

References
  1. "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  2. "11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate". Nippon Cinema. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  3. Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako (ed.). 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha. pp. 94–97, 127.

Bibliography
  • Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako (ed.). 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha.
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