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.
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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Release Date
January 21, 1962
Rating
Runtime
1h 38m
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
Yūsaku Terashima
Izaburō Asano
Kin Sugai
Kan Horinouchi
Shōzō Nanbu
Kaio Takeda
Seishiro Hara
Mori (as Seijiro Haro)
Ichirō Amano
Sukezō Hisama
Saburo Date
Heikichi Hisama
Reiko Kongō
Hideko Kishimoto
Sumao Ishihara
Kishichi Sengoku
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