The Temple of Wild Geese

The story

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 & crew

Ayako WakaoSatoko Kirihara

Masao MishimaJikai Kitami

Isao KimuraAtsumichi Uda

Kuniichi TakamiJinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura IINangaku Kishimoto

Mineko Yorozuyo

Mineko YorozuyoTatsu Kirihara

Yoshiko Kamo

Yoshiko KamoMasumi Fujimoto

Shoichi OzawaKuniitsu Takami

Kō NishimuraMokudō Kida

Shinobu Araki

Shinobu ArakiDokuseki Sugimoto

Kōichi KatsuragiTakemine Matsuyama

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Ryōnosuke AzumaShōan Kawaguchi