Fan Casting Kimitake Hiraoka in The Masks We Wear: The Yukio Mishima Story

Yukio Mishima, born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and leader of an attempted coup d'état that resulted in his suicide. Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s—including in 1968, but that year the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel.