The Temple of 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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 21, 1962

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Daiei Film

Cast

Isao Kimura,Shinobu Araki,Kin Sugai,Kiyoshi Kasuga,Shoichi Ozawa,Jun Fujikawa,Sumao Ishihara,Kō Nishimura,Ryōnosuke Azuma,Tokio Okiand 20 more

Director

Yūzō Kawashima

Writer

Kazuo Funahashi,Tsutomu Mizukami,Yūzō Kawashima

Producer

Masaichi Nagata

Cinematography

Hiroshi Murai

Music

Sei Ikeno

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0171820