Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

A forlorn love story between a young monk and his childhood sweet-heart set in post WWII Japan.

Top credits

Directors

Tomotaka Tasaka

Writers

Cast

Chôichirô Kawarasaki — Masayori
Yoshiko Sakuma — Yuko Katagiri
Michiyo Kogure — Katsue
Yatsuko Tan'ami — Hisako

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Did you know

• The temple that gets burnt down is an iconic building in Japan. It is Kinkaku-ji in Japanese which is often translated as The Golden Pavillion. It was built by one of the Ashikaga shoguns as a retreat but later became part of a temple. It survived through WWII but was really burnt down by a crazy monk in 1950. Another Japanese author, Mishima, wrote a novel based on this incident.

• The author Tsutomu Minakami (on whose novel the movie is based) had actually been a priest in a Buddhist temple. He left and went on to become a writer.He was dissatisfied with the temple system and this shows through the movie.