, also called 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu. The film was based on the Mishima Incident, which was a failed coup d'etat attempt led by Yukio Mishima in 1970. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot Yukio Mishima had become one of Japan's leading authors, as a Nobel Prize in Literature candidate, on the back of numerous works including Confessions of a Mask, The Sound of Waves, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Patriotism, and Madame de Sade.

Meanwhile, after undergoing training with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), he officially established the Tatenokai, a civilian militia, alongside nationalist students in 1968, when the height of the left-wing student's movement "Anpo protests".

His intention was to risk his life alongside the JSDF in the event of an emergency such as riots staged by new-left students Zenkyōtō under the banner of opposing the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo) using the deployment for domestic peace-keeping as the ultimate opportunity to transform the JSDF into Japan's true national military.

However, even when new-left riots broke out, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Riot Police Unit managed to suppress them without requiring intervention from the JSDF or the Tatenokai, leaving Mishma and his members, including Masakatsu Morita, consumed by a growing sense of frustration.

Mishima continually pondered the true nature of postwar Japan and the pivotal events he had observed, including the February 26 Incident, the Assassination of Inejirō Asanuma, and the student movements exemplified by the . Finally, on November 25, 1970, aiming to awaken the JSDF, Mishima headed to the JGSDF , accompanied by four members of the Tatenokai.

Mishima began calling on the JSDF personnel to rise up in action for abolish Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. After his speech met with a barrage of jeer, he committed seppuku, ritual suicide in accordance with the ancient samurai custom, and Morita followed suit. By assembling fragmentary scenes of the background leading up to the incident, this film dramatically portrays the moment of their final resolve.

Cast This is the film cast.

Arata Iura as Yukio Mishima (the head of Tatenokai) Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Masakatsu Morita (the Tatenokai member who participated in the incident, the second student leader of Tatenokai) as Hiroyasu Koga (the Tatenokai member who participated in the incident) as (ditto) as (ditto) as Otoya Yamaguchi (the boy who killed Inejiro Asanuma) Shinobu Terajima as (Mishima's wife) Kiyohiko Shibukawa as (the first student leader of Tatenokai) as (a Tatenokai member, Morita's close friend) as (ditto) as (a Tatenokai member) as (ditto) as (a Tatenokai member and player, he performed ) as (a member, Waseda University student) Motoki Ochiai as (a Waseda University student, Morita's friend, he engaged in Kuril Islands dispute with Morita) as (Morita's childhood friend) Hanae Kan as (Morita's childhood first love, Shigeru's older sister) as , (a former Lieutenant General, the principal of the ) Gô Jibiki as (an instructor of the Fuji school) as (the head of the Information Education Section at the ) Ken Yoshizawa as (the JSDF Eastern Army Headquarters Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General) Toshiki Masuda as a JSDF staff officer as (a former Imperial Japanese Army Sergeant, he presented to Mishima, a Katana (Japanese sword) , the celebrated sword that made) as Kenichi Tanaka's father as (the reporter entrusted by Mishima with his Geki)

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