Temple of the Wild Geese
Yuzo Kawashima / JP, 1962 / 98 min.
Yuzo Kawashima’s acutely observed, ironic drama follows a contracted lover and a Buddhist monk who become close due to their hardscrabble childhoods. New 4K restoration.
The young monk Jinen lives at a Buddhist temple known for its paintings of wild geese which is governed by a cruel high priest who subjects his hired lover Satoko to his sexual desires. She pitties and is fascinated by the quiet, tortured Jinen. When she seeks him out they prove to have had the same kind of impoverished youth and this brings them together.
"The making of this film was incredibly helpful in figuring out what my goals are to be for my direction. Concurrently, I want to thank Hiroshi Murai behind the camera. That is because Murai made me sorry that I was not a director who saw films from a painterly perspective. He let me realize this.” – Yuzo Kawashima
New 4K restoration (Kadokawa)
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Director
Yuzo Kawashima
Production year
1962
Country
JP
Original title
Gan no tera
Length
98 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
The Elegant Beasts of Yuzo Kawashima
Japanese director Yuzo Kawashima is seen as the ‘missing link’ between the classic Japanese cinema of the ’50s and the New Wave of the ’60s. He had a highly developed sense of the absurd, and in his films fought against hypocrisy and false facades.
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