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The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

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.

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Yūzō Kawashima

Director

Yūzō Kawashima

Screenplay

Cast

Ayako Wakao

Satoko Kirihara

Masao Mishima

Jikai Kitami

Isao Kimura

Atsumichi Uda

Kuniichi Takami

Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Nangaku Kishimoto

Mineko Yorozuyo

Tatsu Kirihara

Yoshiko Kamo

Masumi Fujimoto

Shoichi Ozawa

Kuniitsu Takami

Kō Nishimura

Mokudō Kida

Shinobu Araki

Dokuseki Sugimoto

Kōichi Katsuragi

Takemine Matsuyama

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Shōan Kawaguchi

Ayako Wakao

Satoko Kirihara

Masao Mishima

Jikai Kitami

Isao Kimura

Atsumichi Uda

Kuniichi Takami

Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Nangaku Kishimoto

Mineko Yorozuyo

Tatsu Kirihara

Yoshiko Kamo

Masumi Fujimoto

Shoichi Ozawa

Kuniitsu Takami

Kō Nishimura

Mokudō Kida

Shinobu Araki

Dokuseki Sugimoto

Kōichi Katsuragi

Takemine Matsuyama

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Shōan Kawaguchi

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Release Date

January 21, 1962

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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