First let me say that I totally ignored that the famous Japanese writer Mishima was an actor too. This is for me a solid, tough and sometimes disturbing crime film, with heavy noir accents inspired I guess by the American movies of this period. I mean the overall atmosphere. Mishima was a truly good actor, convincing, at least for such a performance. The characters relationship is very weird and hard to understand from the Western countries point of view. Maybe Mishima put a lot of himself in this role. This film deserves to be more widely known. I have seen far far worse in terms of Yakuza plots.
Review of Afraid to Die
