Description
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.
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Release Date1962
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Runtime1 hr 37 min
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Languageja
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Rating6.5 (15)
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Genres
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DirectorYūzō Kawashima
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Cast若尾文子三島雅夫木村功高見國一二代目 中村鴈治郎萬代峰子Yoshiko Kamo小沢昭一西村晃荒木忍葛木香一Ryōnosuke Azuma寺島雄作菅井きん南部彰三原聖四郎天野一郎伊達三郎金剛麗子石原須磨男藤川準春日清沖時男Sōji Shibata木村元越川一Tetsu MikamiTakuya Kitano小柳圭子山茶花究
