Social Entertainment / Movies
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.
Cast
- Ayako Wakao as Satoko Kirihara
- Masao Mishima as Jikai Kitami
- Isao Kimura as Atsumichi Uda
- Kuniichi Takami as Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
- Ganjirō Nakamura II as Nangaku Kishimoto
- Mineko Yorozuyo as Tatsu Kirihara
- Yoshiko Kamo as Masumi Fujimoto
- Shoichi Ozawa as Kuniitsu Takami
- Kō Nishimura as Mokudō Kida
- Shinobu Araki as Dokuseki Sugimoto
- Kōichi Katsuragi as Takemine Matsuyama
- Ryōnosuke Azuma as Shōan Kawaguchi
Details
- Director
- Yūzō Kawashima
- Released
- January 21, 1962
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Daiei Film
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.5 / 10 from 16 votes
Rate The Temple of Wild Geese out of five, keep it on your watch list, and read what other people are saying.
Open in Social Entertainment