Movielogr
The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
Directed by Yuzo Kawashima
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.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Ayako Wakao | Masao Mishima | Isao Kimura | Kuniichi Takami | Ganjirô Nakamura | Mineko Yorozuyo | Yoshiko Kamo | Shoichi Ozawa | Kô Nishimura | Shinobu Araki | Kôichi Katsuragi | Ryônosuke Azuma | Yûsaku Terashima | Kin Sugai | Shôzô Nanbu | Seishirô Hara | Ichirô Amano | Saburo Date | Reiko Kongo | Sumao Ishihara | Jun Fujikawa | Kiyoshi Kasuga | Tokio Oki | Soji Shibata | Gen Kimura | Hajime Koshikawa | Tetsu Mikami | Takuya Kitano | Keiko Koyanagi | Kyû Sazanka