Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
16 audience votes
Key crew
- Yūzō KawashimaDirector
- Kazuo FunahashiScreenplay
- Yūzō KawashimaScreenplay
- Sei IkenoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ayako WakaoSatoko Kirihara
- Masao MishimaJikai Kitami
- Isao KimuraAtsumichi Uda
- Kuniichi TakamiJinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi
- Ganjirō Nakamura IINangaku Kishimoto
- Mineko YorozuyoTatsu Kirihara
- Yoshiko KamoMasumi Fujimoto
- Shoichi OzawaKuniitsu Takami
- Kō NishimuraMokudō Kida
- Shinobu ArakiDokuseki Sugimoto
- Kōichi KatsuragiTakemine Matsuyama
- Ryōnosuke AzumaShōan Kawaguchi
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Themes
based on novel or book