
The Temple of Wild Geese

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.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima, Isao Kimura, Kuniichi Takami, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Mineko Yorozuyo, Yoshiko Kamo, Shoichi Ozawa, Kō Nishimura, Shinobu Araki
Director: Yūzō Kawashima, Noriaki Yuasa, Eiji Nishizawa, Yûzô Kawashima, Yuzo Kawashima
Country: Japan
Produced By: Daiei Film, Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Runtime: 98
Release: 1962
Rating: 6.2 out of 10
Language: 日本語,
Views: 425
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Quality: DVD
Also known as: Gan No Tera
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