The Temple of Wild Geese

The Temple of Wild Geese by Yūzō Kawashima

6.30

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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Cast

Ayako Wakao

Ayako Wakao as Satoko Kirihara

Masao Mishima

Masao Mishima as Jikai Kitami

Isao Kimura

Isao Kimura as Atsumichi Uda

Kuniichi Takami

Kuniichi Takami as Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Ganjirō Nakamura II as Nangaku Kishimoto

Mineko Yorozuyo

Mineko Yorozuyo as Tatsu Kirihara

Yoshiko Kamo

Yoshiko Kamo as Masumi Fujimoto

Shoichi Ozawa

Shoichi Ozawa as Kuniitsu Takami

Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura as Mokudō Kida

Shinobu Araki

Shinobu Araki as Dokuseki Sugimoto

Kōichi Katsuragi

Kōichi Katsuragi as Takemine Matsuyama

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Ryōnosuke Azuma as Shōan Kawaguchi

Yūsaku Terashima

Yūsaku Terashima as Izaburō Asano

Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai as Kan Horinouchi

Shōzō Nanbu

Shōzō Nanbu as Kaio Takeda

Seishirō Hara

Seishirō Hara as Mori (as Seijiro Haro)

Ichirō Amano

Ichirō Amano as Sukezō Hisama

Saburo Date

Saburo Date as Heikichi Hisama

Reiko Kongō

Reiko Kongō as Hideko Kishimoto

Sumao Ishihara

Sumao Ishihara as Kishichi Sengoku

Jun Fujikawa

Jun Fujikawa as Heizaburō Hisama

Kiyoshi Kasuga

Kiyoshi Kasuga as Kinnosuke Ishida

Tokio Oki

Tokio Oki as Jirō Ebisugawa

Sōji Shibata

Sōji Shibata as Shōji Yasui

Gen Kimura

Gen Kimura as Nanzō Sasai

Hajime Koshikawa

Hajime Koshikawa as Kōta Nishikawa

Tetsu Mikami

Tetsu Mikami as Kumatarō Tamura

Takuya Kitano

Takuya Kitano as Tokuzen Mikuma

Keiko Koyanagi

Keiko Koyanagi as Shizuko Hisama

Kyū Sazanka

Kyū Sazanka as Sesshū Fujimoto

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