The Temple of Wild Geese
Synopsis
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 mannerâa 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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Top cast
Ayako Wakao
Satoko Kirihara
Masao Mishima
Jikai Kitami
Isao Kimura
Atsumichi Uda
Kuniichi Takami
Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
GanjirĆ Nakamura II
Nangaku Kishimoto
Mineko Yorozuyo
Tatsu Kirihara
Yoshiko Kamo
Masumi Fujimoto
Shoichi Ozawa
Kuniitsu Takami
KĆ Nishimura
MokudĆ Kida
Shinobu Araki
Dokuseki Sugimoto
