The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
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.
Director:
Yūzō Kawashima
Writers:
Yūzō Kawashima, Kazuo Funahashi.
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Ayako Wakao as Satoko Kirihara |
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Masao Mishima as Jikai Kitami |
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Isao Kimura as Atsumichi Uda |
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Kuniichi Takami as Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi |
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Ganjirō Nakamura II as Nangaku Kishimoto |
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Mineko Yorozuyo as Tatsu Kirihara |
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Yoshiko Kamo as Masumi Fujimoto |
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Shoichi Ozawa as Kuniitsu Takami |
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Kō Nishimura as Mokudō Kida |
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Shinobu Araki as Dokuseki Sugimoto |
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Kōichi Katsuragi as Takemine Matsuyama |
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Ryōnosuke Azuma as Shōan Kawaguchi |
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Yūsaku Terashima as Izaburō Asano |
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Kin Sugai as Kan Horinouchi |
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Shōzō Nanbu as Kaio Takeda |
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Seishiro Hara as Mori (as Seijiro Haro) |
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Ichirō Amano as Sukezō Hisama |
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Saburo Date as Heikichi Hisama |
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Reiko Kongō as Hideko Kishimoto |
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Sumao Ishihara as Kishichi Sengoku |
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Jun Fujikawa as Heizaburō Hisama |
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Kiyoshi Kasuga as Kinnosuke Ishida |
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Tokio Oki as Jirō Ebisugawa |
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Sōji Shibata as Shōji Yasui |
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Gen Kimura as Nanzō Sasai |
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Hajime Koshikawa as Kōta Nishikawa |
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Tetsu Mikami as Kumatarō Tamura |
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Takuya Kitano as Tokuzen Mikuma |
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Keiko Koyanagi as Shizuko Hisama |
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Kyū Sazanka as Sesshū Fujimoto |
| Sound | Masao Ōsumi | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Yūzō Kawashima | Director |
| Sound | Sei Ikeno | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Yūzō Kawashima | Screenplay |
| Directing | Noriaki Yuasa | Assistant Director |
| Production | Masaichi Nagata | Producer |
| Writing | Kazuo Funahashi | Screenplay |
| Art | Teruo Kajitani | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Eiji Nishizawa | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Hiroshi Murai | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Mitsuzō Miyata | Editor |
| Writing | Tsutomu Mizukami | Novel |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Lighting | Ken'ichi Okamoto | Gaffer |
