Bruce Lee meets Yukio Mishima

What if both men met each other before their deaths in the '70s? Maybe in co-starring roles in a movie? How would that affect iconic images of Asia?
 
I don't think Bruce Lee would like Mishima at all. While not the usual run-in-the-mill Japanese nationalist (he called for Hirohito's abdication for a 'better' emperor), he was still a Japanese nationalist.
 
Unfortunately, I can't see a movie being made between the two. An actual fight on the streets is more likely, ending with Bruce doing an Indie on Yukio.

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So you're saying they would have a duel??
Yukio Mishima was insane. He was driven nuts from being in the closet during a very bad period of personal development which forced his misdirected feelings of overt machismo into an abiding love of fascism. Horrible, horrid man.

Lee would have wiped the floor with him, besides.
 
Yukio Mishima was insane. He was driven nuts from being in the closet during a very bad period of personal development which forced his misdirected feelings of overt machismo into an abiding love of fascism. Horrible, horrid man.

Lee would have wiped the floor with him, besides.

I'm not so sure he was a genuine true believer. There's a not unconvincing argument that his half-assed coup attempt was really just an elaborate form of performance art.

Don't ge me wrong, he definitely was a few prawns short of a galaxy, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a fascist.
 
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I'm not so sure he was a genuine true believer. There's a not unconvincing argument that his half-added coup attempt was really just an elaborate form of performance art.

Don't ge me wrong, he definitely was a few prawns short of a galaxy, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a fascist.

He definitely had a few screws loose, yeah. After all, this was the man who pissed off his fellow nationalists by demanding the emperor's abdication for his surrender proclamation. That, and him being so deep in the closet he was next door. Not to mention, the JGSDF men who had to hear his speech simply booed him off. It's hard not to think that his coup attempt was just an excuse to perform some bizarre ritual-suicide-slash-live-performance.
 
He definitely had a few screws loose, yeah. After all, this was the man who pissed off his fellow nationalists by demanding the emperor's abdication for his surrender proclamation. That, and him being so deep in the closet he was next door. Not to mention, the JGSDF men who had to hear his speech simply booed him off. It's hard not to think that his coup attempt was just an excuse to perform some bizarre ritual-suicide-slash-live-performance.

Was he in the closet? From what I understand he frequently took male lovers, but couldn't be openly gay due to the attitudes of the time (I do know that his wife denied it to the day he died, and his children successfully sued a former lover of his for publishing their correspondence).

I do think the coup was an elaborate form of performance art/quasi-suicide by cop. Mishima was obsessed with bushido, and I think the whole thing was just an overly elaborate way of giving him the samurai death he craved.
 
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