The Temple of Wild Geese

Genres

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.

Directors

Yūzō Kawashima

Writers

Kazuo FunahashiScreenplay

Yūzō KawashimaScreenplay

Cast

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Ayako Wakao

Satoko Kirihara

Masao Mishima

Jikai Kitami

Isao Kimura

Atsumichi Uda

Kuniichi Takami

Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Nangaku Kishimoto