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The Temple of the Wild Geese
The Temple of the Wild Geese
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THE TEMPLE OF THE WILD GEESE

雁の寺 | Gan no tera

Directed by Yûzô Kawashima
Japan, 1962
Drama, Romance

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, who also cruelly bosses around the young disciple Jinen – who becomes an object of pity and fascination for Satoko.

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, who also cruelly bosses around the young disciple Jinen – who becomes an object of pity and fascination for Satoko.