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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Ayako Wakao as Satoko Kirihara
Masao Mishima as Jikai Kitami
Isao Kimura as Atsumichi Uda
Kuniichi Takami as Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
Ganjirō Nakamura II as Nangaku Kishimoto
Mineko Yorozuyo as Tatsu Kirihara
Yoshiko Kamo as Masumi Fujimoto
Shoichi Ozawa as Kuniitsu Takami
Kō Nishimura as Mokudō Kida
Shinobu Araki as Dokuseki Sugimoto
Kōichi Katsuragi as Takemine Matsuyama
Ryōnosuke Azuma as Shōan Kawaguchi
Yūsaku Terashima as Izaburō Asano
Kin Sugai as Kan Horinouchi
Shōzō Nanbu as Kaio Takeda
Seishirō Hara as Mori (as Seijiro Haro)
Ichirō Amano as Sukezō Hisama
Saburo Date as Heikichi Hisama
Reiko Kongō as Hideko Kishimoto
Sumao Ishihara as Kishichi Sengoku
Jun Fujikawa as Heizaburō Hisama
Kiyoshi Kasuga as Kinnosuke Ishida
Tokio Oki as Jirō Ebisugawa
Sōji Shibata as Shōji Yasui
Gen Kimura as Nanzō Sasai
Hajime Koshikawa as Kōta Nishikawa
Tetsu Mikami as Kumatarō Tamura
Takuya Kitano as Tokuzen Mikuma
Keiko Koyanagi as Shizuko Hisama
Kyū Sazanka as Sesshū Fujimoto
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