There is a scene in both the book and the movie , where Mishima fakes the symptoms of a more severe illness in a health checkup at a military draft .
At least two scenes , one showing the young Mishima being aroused by a painting of the Christian martyr Sebastian , and anotherwhere a young Mishima purposefully exaggerates his illness at a military draft health checkup , appear in this book .
Mishima-COLON- A Life in Four Chapters