The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

  • NR
  • 01/21/1962 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 1h 38m

Overview

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.

Yūzō Kawashima

Director, Screenplay

Tsutomu Mizukami

Novel

Kazuo Funahashi

Screenplay

Cast

Ayako Wakao's headshot

Ayako Wakao

Satoko Kirihara
Masao Mishima's headshot

Masao Mishima

Jikai Kitami
Isao Kimura's headshot

Isao Kimura

Atsumichi Uda
Kuniichi Takami's headshot

Kuniichi Takami

Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
Ganjirō Nakamura II's headshot

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Nangaku Kishimoto
Mineko Yorozuyo's headshot

Mineko Yorozuyo

Tatsu Kirihara
Yoshiko Kamo's headshot

Yoshiko Kamo

Masumi Fujimoto
Shoichi Ozawa's headshot

Shoichi Ozawa

Kuniitsu Takami

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