The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
1h 38m
Running Time
January 21, 1962Release Date
The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
1h 38m
Running Time
January 21, 1962Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Ayako Wakao
Satoko Kirihara
Masao Mishima
Jikai Kitami
Isao Kimura
Atsumichi Uda
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Nangaku Kishimoto
Kuniichi Takami
Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
Mineko Yorozuyo
Tatsu Kirihara
Yūzō Kawashima
Director
Tsutomu Mizukami
Writer
Yoshiko Kamo
Masumi Fujimoto
Kazuo Funahashi
Writer
Shoichi Ozawa
Kuniitsu Takami
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Kō Nishimura
Mokudō Kida
Sei Ikeno
Composer
Shinobu Araki
Dokuseki Sugimoto
Kōichi Katsuragi
Takemine Matsuyama
Hiroshi Murai
Cinematographer
Ryōnosuke Azuma
Shōan Kawaguchi
Yūsaku Terashima
Izaburō Asano
Kin Sugai
Kan Horinouchi
Shōzō Nanbu
Kaio Takeda
Seishirō Hara
Mori (as Seijiro Haro)
Ichirō Amano
Sukezō Hisama
Saburo Date
Heikichi Hisama
Reiko Kongō
Hideko Kishimoto
Sumao Ishihara
Kishichi Sengoku
Jun Fujikawa
Heizaburō Hisama
Kiyoshi Kasuga
Kinnosuke Ishida
Tokio Oki
Jirō Ebisugawa
Sōji Shibata
Shōji Yasui
Gen Kimura
Nanzō Sasai
Hajime Koshikawa
Kōta Nishikawa
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The Temple of the Wild Geese (Japanese: 雁の寺, Hepburn: Gan no tera) is an autobiographical novella by Japanese writer Tsutomu Mizukami first published in 1961. It received the Naoki Prize the same year.