This unusually vibrant biopic by “Taxi Driver” writer Schrader is told in episodic fashion, tracing Mishima's eventful life from childhood to his violent, self-inflicted death in protest. Also woven into the narrative are vivid fantasy sequences culled from his exceptional fictional works. Schrader knows that no life simply proceeds from point A to point B, and his magnificently inventive film respects Mishima's legacy enough to present him as a man of serious, somewhat inscrutable complexity. Let “Mishima” reign!