• Eiko Ishioka, 1938–2012

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      Eiko Ishioka’s career encompassed film and theater, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil. Among her many great accomplishments was her stunning, Cannes-awarded work as both production and costume designer on Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. This gallery of images from that film and its production is a tribute to the visionary work of the eclectic, world-renowned artist, who died last Saturday in Tokyo, at the age of seventy-three.

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    Eiko Ishioka’s career encompassed film and theater, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil. Among her many great accomplishments was her stunning, Cannes-awarded work as both production and costume designer on Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. This gallery of images from that film and its production is a tribute to the visionary work of the eclectic, world-renowned artist, who died last Saturday in Tokyo, at the age of seventy-three.

     
     
     

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  • By Michael @ St. Louis
    January 27, 2012
    04:08 PM

    Eiko's accomplishments in film, most notably in Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, was both staggeringly beautiful and other-worldly at the same time. Her vision will be sorely missed.
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  • By David
    January 29, 2012
    04:06 PM

    Her contribution in film design was exquisite, and well as potent. Her work will be always remembered.
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  • By Charles Deckert
    January 31, 2012
    06:39 PM

    I remember her audio interview on the Mishima DVD in which she mentioned having mistakenly welded the series of prison bars in the Runaway Horses segment together, much against the wishes and patience of Schrader, and yet how they manage to achieve a very Kafkaesque beauty in the photo above. I also love the scene where the meeting for the coup endures the police raid, how the walls just manage to fall away, so absurdist! You are missed.
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