Runaway Horses

Yukio Mishima in Hitokiri (1969).

Yes, he should have spoken to them. He should have armed them with the foreknowledge that would keep them from flinging themselves after their destinies, take away their wings, keep them from soaring, make them march in step with the crowd. The world does not approve of flying. Wings are dangerous weapons. 

random Mishima.

Yukio Mishima in Afraid to Die (1960).

This film also goes by the titles Tough Guy and Karakkaze Yaro.

Isao felt keenly that he must develop the knack of masking his feelings in dealing with others.  He had now become a man quite of out the ordinary.  Even if nothing in his bearing showed this, the least carelessness might let people get wind of it.  They might detect that within him was the odor of a burning fuse.

David Bowie’s portrait of Yukio Mishima, on display in Berlin in 2014.

Yukio Mishima

“Beautiful eyes!” Honda exclaimed to himself. “Clear and shining, forever disconcerting others. Peerless young eyes radiating a censure that seems from another world, as if one were suddenly plunged beneath the waters of Sanko Falls. Go ahead, express what you like. Confess to anything at all. Be deeply wounded. You’re at the age when you should be learning the means to defend yourself. By speaking out without restraint, you will at last learn that no one is willing to believe the truth, one of the most valuable lessons a man can learn about life. This is the only wisdom I have to convey to eyes as beautiful as yours.”

1964: Yukio Mishima (center) at a press conference after his invasion of privacy trial concluded.  The Tokyo District Court found in favor of Hachiro Arita, a politician who claimed Mishima wrote a thinly-veiled account of his affair in his novel After the Banquet.