And a charming young man, who claims to be from Venus too, tempts daughter Akiko away from the family. awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty Financial TimesOne of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century New YorkerBeautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books. Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima - Penguin Books Australia Published: 2 August 2022 ISBN: 9780241545560 Imprint: Penguin Classics Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 304 RRP: 26.99 Categories: Short stories Translated works Share Beautiful Star Yukio Mishima Formats & editions Tr. But there are other extra-terrestrials out there, ones who do not look so kindly on the flaws and foibles of humans. After all, humans may be terribly flawed, but aren't they worth saving? He sends out a coded message in the newspaper to find other aliens. He writes letters to Khrushchev, trying to warn everyone he can of the terrible threat. Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together they climb mountains to wait for UFOs, study at home together and regard their human neighbours with a kindly benevolence.īut Father, Juichiro, is worried about the bomb. Beautiful Star: Yukio Mishima (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback 28 April 2022 by Yukio Mishima (Author), Stephen Dodd (Translator) 32 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 9.49 Read with Our Free App Paperback 11.99 1 Used from 9.96 7 New from 11. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs.

Each of them hails from a different planet. Author(s): Yukio Mishima Classic Fiction. The Osugi family have come to a realization.

The family struggle, often in conflict, to address the threat of global warming.The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece: a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs. Jūichirō works as a weather forecaster, Iyoko joins a pyramid scheme selling water, Kazuo is a bike messenger and Akiko is a college student with a complex about her beauty. Over the course of the film, the father comes to believe that he is from Mars, the son that he is from Mercury and the daughter from Venus. Mishimas beautiful novel is about a Japanese family who wake up one day convinced that they are each aliens from a different planet inhabiting human bodies. The Osugi family consists of the father Jūichirō Osugi (Lily Franky), mother Iyoko (Tomoko Nakajima), son Kazuo (Kazuya Kamenashi) and daughter Akiko (Ai Hashimoto). A Beautiful Star ( 美しい星, Utsukushii Hoshi ) is a Japanese science fiction film directed by Daihachi Yoshida and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

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