The Temple of Wild Geese

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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

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Ayako Wakao actor

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Masao Mishima actor Isao Kimura actor

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Kuniichi Takami actor

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Ganjirō Nakamura II actor

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Mineko Yorozuyo actor

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Yoshiko Kamo actor

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Shoichi Ozawa actor

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Kō Nishimura actor

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Shinobu Araki actor

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Kōichi Katsuragi actor

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Ryōnosuke Azuma actor

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Yūsaku Terashima actor

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Kin Sugai actor

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Shōzō Nanbu actor

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Seishirō Hara actor

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Ichirō Amano actor

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Saburō Date actor

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Reiko Kongō actor

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Sumao Ishihara actor