11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
Directed by	Kōji Wakamatsu
Produced by	Noriko Ozaki Kōji Wakamatsu
Written by	Masayuki Kakegawa
Starring	Arata Iura
Cinematography	Yûsaku Mitsuwaka Tomohiko Tsuji
Release dates	25 May 2012 (Cannes) 2 June 2012 (Japan)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi) is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.^[1][2]

Cast

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• Arata Iura as Yukio Mishima (The head of Tatenokai)
• Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Masakatsu Morita (The 2nd student leader of Tatenokai)
• Takatsugu Iwama as Hiroyasu Koga (a Tatenokai member)
• Tasuku Nagaoka as Masayoshi Koga (ditto)
• Suzunosuke as Masahiro Ogawa (ditto)
• Soran Tamoto as Otoya Yamaguchi (the boy who killed Inejiro Asanuma)
• Shinobu Terajima as Yoko Hiraoka (Mishima's wife)
• Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Hiroshi Mochimaru (The 1st student leader of Tatenokai)
• Shima Onishi as Kiyoshi Kuramochi (a Tatenokai member)
• Hideo Nakaizumi as Kenichi Tanaka (ditto)
• Tomosuke Kasamatsu as Kazuhiko Nakatsuji (ditto)
• Yuki Hirano as Tomoaki Turuoka (ditto)
• Shinji Suzuki as Makatsu Sekikawa (ditto, a 龍笛 (Ryūteki) "Dragon flute" player)
• Ichiro Hashimoto as Hidetoshi Saito (a Nihon Gakusei Domei member)
• Motoki Ochiai as Hideaki Endo (ditto, he engaged in Kuril Islands dispute (北方領土問題) with Morita)
• Yuto Kobayashi as Shigeru Ueda (Morita's childhood friend)
• Hanae Kan as Makiko (ditto, Shigeru's sister)
• Katsuyuki Shinohara as Ikarii, Lieutenant general (the principal of the Fuji school of Japan Self-Defense Forces)
• Gô Jibiki as Takashi Fukuoka (a instructor of the Fuji school)
• Ryuji Minakami as Kiyokatsu Yamamoto (the manager of information education section of Investigation school of JSDF)
• Ken Yoshizawa as Kanetoshi Mashita (the commandant the Ichigaya Camp (the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of JSDF)
• Sanshiro Kobayashi as Hiroshi Funasaka (a former officer who presented the 刀 (Katana) "Japanese sword", 関の孫六 (Seki no Magoroku) "Celebrated sword which Magoroku made" to Mishima)
• Ichiro Ogura as Tanaka's father
• Kimihiko Hasegawa as Takao Tokuoka (a Journalist)

Notes

1. "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
2. "11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate". Nippon Cinema. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
3. Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako, ed. 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha. pp. 94–97, 127.

References

• Wakamatsu, Kōji (2012). Otomo, Asako, ed. 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Theater program) [11・25自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち (劇場プログラム)] (in Japanese). Yugakusha.

External links

• 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate at the Internet Movie Database