Alternate versions for
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• In some Japanese versions, the gay bar scene is cut out.
  
  
• The UK VHS version apparently inadvertently left out two shots during the film's ending: The suicide ending to "Kiyoko's House" and the burning of the pavilion in "Temple of the Golden Pavillion."
  
  
• Criterion's DVD (and the newly struck 35mm prints of the film) add a brief deleted scene, from the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" segment in which Mizoguchi talks to an old man, back into the main film.
  
  
• The version transmitted by Channel 4 television in the UK does not have Roy Scheider's narration and is entirely in the Japanese language.
  
  
• The U.S. DVD reissue on Warner Bros. does not have Roy Scheider's narration; it has been replaced with an uncredited narrator, probably due to legal or technical issues. The disc does, however, feature the Japanese-language narration track along with English subtitles.
  
  

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