Director: Ichikawa Kon
Script: Ichikawa Kon, Hasebe Keiji, Wada Natto d'après le livre éponyme de Mishima Yukio
Cinematographer: Miyagawa Kazuo
Editing: Nishida Shigeo
Art Setting: Matsumoto Shunzo
Music: Mayuzumi Toshiro
Cast: Ichikawa Raizo, Nakadai Tatsuya, Nakamura Ganjiro, Funaki Yoichi, Nakamura Tamao
Production: Daiei
Year: 1958
Screening: 2019
DCP, B & W, 99 mn
O.V. Japanese with French Subtitles
Part of Japonism 2018
Goichi Mizoguchi arrives at the idyllic Soenji Temple that houses the renowned Shukaku Pavilion with a letter of introduction from his late father, a humble, provincial monk and trusted friend of the Chief Priest, Tayama. Mizoguchi has been raised by his father in retaining an ideal image of Shukaku. Tourists visit the temple, a couple is having fun…Mizoguchi’s devotion to maintaining the purity of the pavilion becomes increasingly monomaniacal. One day, the young man surprises the monk in company of a woman. Mizoguchi resorts to a final, desperate act.