Yukio Mishima’s Suggestive Works Echo Johnny’s Abuse Scandal
Akio Nakamori's Theory of Johnny's Desire Chapter 5: Yukio Mishima and Johnny's (3)
The Fate Connected by the Great Director
In the previous article, titled “The Hidden Father and the Unknown Connection of SMAP Who Built Johnny’s Kingdom with Strong Ties to Political and Financial Circles,” the role that Taisuke Fujishima played in the former Johnny’s Office was examined.
The connection between Yukio Mishima and Johnny & Associates lies in Taisuke Fujishima, who was Mary Kitagawa’s husband and a junior to Mishima at Gakushuin.
In fact, there is another connection.
It is Yukio Ninagawa.
A representative director of Japan, he passed away in 2016 at the age of 80, three years before Johnny Kitagawa’s death.
During their lifetimes, the two had a close friendship. Johnny Kitagawa, who rarely appeared on television, made only one radio appearance. It was on NHK Radio’s program “Yukio Ninagawa’s Crossover Talk,” which aired in 2015, the year before Ninagawa’s death. This was the first time Johnny Kitagawa’s voice was publicly broadcast, creating quite a stir.
Ninagawa launched Takuya Kimura into the theater at the age of 17 and has employed many of Johnny’s talents in his productions. One of the results was a 2011 stage play.
It was a project titled “Mishima Double.”
The concept was to simultaneously perform two of Yukio Mishima’s works with the same cast.
Mishima was said to be more skilled as a playwright than as a novelist, particularly in his later representative works.
These are “Madame de Sade” and “My Friend Hitler.”
Mishima regarded both works as a perfect pair.
“Both consist of three acts, with the former featuring six female characters and the latter four male characters, centered around Sade and Hitler, who represent monstrous figures from the 18th and 20th centuries, respectively.”
Marquis de Sade is the infamous sexual pervert who is the origin of the terms sadism and masochism. Hitler, of course, was the dictator of Nazi Germany.
Ninagawa brought both of these protagonists to the stage simultaneously.
He cast Noriyuki Higashiyama and Toma Ikuta as the leads.
