The other day I predicted that I was going to be heading down a Kenji Mizoguchi rabbit hole, and while I was lining up films in my Criterion Channel queue I stumbled across Kon Ichikawa's Conflagration. It's a film adaptation of Yukio Mishima's novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, which is probably why it jumped out at me. I've always been a big Mishima fan, and the other day I was thinking about how much I wanted to give yet another re-read of his Sea of Fertility tetralogy (Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel). Now I want to go back and re-read The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. The film itself is a worthy adaptation, and it has some truly arresting scenes, and it is very true to those themes you'd expect in Mishima: the challenge of modernity, the loss of meaning, etc. Recommended.
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