The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
Drama
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
Satoko Kirihara
Jikai Kitami
Takemine Matsuyama
Shōan Kawaguchi
Izaburō Asano
Kan Horinouchi
Kaio Takeda
Mori (as Seijiro Haro)
Sukezō Hisama
Heikichi Hisama
Hideko Kishimoto
Kishichi Sengoku
Atsumichi Uda
Heizaburō Hisama
Kinnosuke Ishida
Jirō Ebisugawa
Shōji Yasui
Nanzō Sasai
Kōta Nishikawa
Kumatarō Tamura
Tokuzen Mikuma
Shizuko Hisama
Sesshū Fujimoto
Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
Nangaku Kishimoto
Tatsu Kirihara
Masumi Fujimoto
Kuniitsu Takami
Mokudō Kida
Dokuseki Sugimoto
Crew
Director
Novel
Screenplay
Screenplay
Producer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Editor
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Lighting Technician
Sound Recordist