The Temple of Wild Geese

Overview

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.

Cast

Ayako Wakao

Satoko Kirihara

Masao Mishima

Jikai Kitami

Isao Kimura

Atsumichi Uda

Kuniichi Takami

Jinen Horinouchi / Sutekichi

Ganjirō Nakamura II

Nangaku Kishimoto

N/A

Mineko Yorozuyo

Tatsu Kirihara

N/A

Yoshiko Kamo

Masumi Fujimoto

Shoichi Ozawa

Kuniitsu Takami

Kō Nishimura

Mokudō Kida

N/A

Shinobu Araki

Dokuseki Sugimoto

Kōichi Katsuragi

Takemine Matsuyama

N/A

Ryōnosuke Azuma

Shōan Kawaguchi