Editing Yukio Mishima (section)

===Acting and modelling===
[[File:Yukio mishima 1961.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mishima poses for a photograph, 1961]]
Mishima was also an actor, and starred in [[Yasuzo Masumura]]'s 1960 film, ''[[Afraid to Die]]'', for which he also sang the theme song (lyrics by himself; music by [[Shichirō Fukazawa]]).<ref>{{Harvnb|Encyclo|2000|pp=457–458}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Reseach2|2006|pp=139–151}}</ref> He performed in films like ''[[Patriotism (1966 film)|Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death]]'' directed by himself, 1966, ''[[Black Lizard (film)|Black Lizard]]'' directed by [[Kinji Fukasaku]], 1968 and ''[[Hitokiri (film)|Hitokiri]]'' directed by [[Hideo Gosha]], 1969. Maki Isaka has discussed how his knowledge of performance and theatrical forms influenced short stories including {{Nihongo|''Onnagata''|[[:ja:女方 (小説)|女方]]|Onnagata|}}.<ref> {{cite book |last=Isaka|first=Maki|date=2023|editor-last=Wolfe |editor-first=Graham |title=The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction |url=https://www.routledge.com/the-routledge-companion-to-theatre-fiction/wolfe/p/book/9781032069906|publisher=Routledge |pages=103–115 |chapter= Mishima Yukio’s “Onnagata” as a Shingeki Theatre-Fiction: “Amalgamation” of the Theatrical and the Literary in a Kabuki-World Tale |isbn=9781032069906}} </ref> 

Mishima was featured as the photo model in the photographer [[Eikoh Hosoe]]'s book {{Nihongo|''Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses''|[[:ja:薔薇刑|薔薇刑]]|Bara-kei|}}, as well as in [[Tamotsu Yatō]]'s photobooks {{Nihongo|''Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan''|体道～日本のボディビルダーたち|Taidō: Nihon no bodybuilder tachi|}} and {{Nihongo|''Otoko: Photo Studies of the Young Japanese Male''|男|Otoko|}}. The American author [[Donald Richie]] gave an eyewitness account of seeing Mishima, dressed in a loincloth and armed with a sword, posing in the snow for one of Tamotsu Yatō's photoshoots.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richie |first=Donald |title=The Japan journals: 1947–2004 |publisher=Stone Bridge |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-89346-984-9 |location=Berkeley, Calif. |pages=148–149 |oclc=773692477}}</ref>

In the men's magazine ''[[Heibon Punch]]'', to which Mishima had contributed various essays and criticisms, he won first place in the "Mr. Dandy" reader popularity poll in 1967 with 19,590 votes, beating second place [[Toshiro Mifune]] by 720 votes.<ref name="Shiine">{{Harvnb|Shiine|2012|pp=27–33}}
</ref> In the next reader popularity poll, "Mr. International", Mishima ranked second behind French President [[Charles de Gaulle]].<ref name="Shiine"/> At that time in the late 1960s, Mishima was the first celebrity to be described as a "superstar" (''sūpāsutā'') by the Japanese media.<ref>{{Harvnb|Shiine|2012|p=104}}</ref>