Masaki Dômoto & Yukio Mishima – Yûkoku AKA Patriotism AKA Rite of Love & Death (1966)

Quote:
After participating in the Ni Ni Roku Incident of February 1936, Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama has been given orders to execute some of his fellow mutineers. He decides to commit seppuku, and his wife Reiko vows to kill herself with him. They make passionate love, then commit suicide.

Patriotism is a silent, thirty-minute black-and-white film with long expository intertitles elaborating on the story and its historical background. It contains visual references to Noh theatre, as Mishima admired the traditional style and wrote several plays in the genre. Set in a single room, it is composed of static wide shots and lingering close-ups, most of which obscure Mishima’s eyes.

patriotism (1).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	27mn 37s
Size: 	394 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	690x464 ~> 690x517
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 800 Kbps
BPP: 	0.234
Audio
#1:  	1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/0D4FE5852B7C263/Patriotism.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English