The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
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Stars:
- Yūzō Kawashima
Writing:
- Tsutomu Minakami
- Yūzō Kawashima
- Kazuo Funahashi
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Release Date: 1962-01-21
6.2/10
6.2/10
- Country: JP
- Language: 日本語
- Runtime: 98
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Satoko Kirihara
Atsumichi Uda
Jikai Kitami
Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
Nangaku Kishimoto
Sesshū Fujimoto
Kuniitsu Takami
Mokudō Kida
Takemine Matsuyama
Izaburō Asano
Kan Horinouchi
Kaio Takeda
Heikichi Hisama
Jirō Ebisugawa
Nanzō Sasai
Nangaku Kishimoto
