James Fox and Anita Pallenberg, Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, 1970
Kenji Sawada and Setsuko Karasuma, Mishima, Paul Schrader, 1985
On the commentary track of the new and wonderful Criterion disc of Schrader's remarkable film, the director himself points out his "petite homage" to the controversial and perhaps even more remarkable Cammell/Roeg film, which he's also praised in the pages of Film Comment. What's particularly interesting about this homage is how it's embedded in an adaptation—a petite adaptation as it were, of Mishima's 1959 novel Kyoko's House, which I'm betting didn't contain the dialogue line "I'll be your mirror," either...
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