Gan no tera 1962

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 

Mineko Yorozuyo
Tatsu Kirihara 

• The Temple of Wild Geese