The Temple of Wild Geese
movie

The Temple of Wild Geese

TMDBJan 21, 1962
TraktMay 23, 1984

If adventure has a name... it must be Indiana Jones.

TMDB6.5Trakt7.7

Rated

PG

Runtime

1h 38m

Status

Released

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

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.