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The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

Drama
Release Date: 1962, January 21
Directors: Yūzō Kawashima
Countries: Japan
Production: Daiei Film
Cast: Isao Kimura, Masao Mishima, Kyū Sazanka, Kō Nishimura, Kin Sugai, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Shōzō Nanbu, Ichirō Amano, Saburo Date, Hajime Koshikawa, Tetsu Mikami, Jun Fujikawa

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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