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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.

Release Date

January 21, 1962

Runtime

98 min

Genres

Drama

Directed by

Yūzō Kawashima, Eiji Nishizawa, Noriaki Yuasa

Screenplay by

Kazuo Funahashi, Yūzō Kawashima

Language

Japanese

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Status

Released