Romantic obsession and sexual intrigue meet in the sumptuous historical meller "Spring Snow," set during Japan's Taisho era. Based on the novel by Yukio Mishima, pic reps an extravagant departure for ...

HIROHITO: EMPEROR OF JAPAN by Leonard Mosley. 371 pages. Prentice-Hall. $7.95. According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood ...

Independent Japanese filmmaker Isao Yukisada collaborates with screenwriters Chihiro Ito and Shinsuje Sato to adapt author Yukio Mishima's sexually tinged tale of obsession and intrigue in Taisho era ...