If you loved A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, try The Temple of Wild Geese

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

1957 · dir. Yūzō Kawashima

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The Temple of Wild Geese

1962 · dir. Yūzō Kawashima

What they share

Both films are directed by Yūzō Kawashima, and they both carry the outsider mood tag. If that's the register that drew you to A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

outsider

What The Temple of Wild Geese is

Peyton Place if set in a Kyoto temple. A young acolyte and a kept woman find themselves drawn together amid corruption and cruelty. Masochism and ennui are rarely so gorgeously filmed.

If you loved A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, try The Temple of Wild Geese

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The Temple of Wild Geese

What they share

What The Temple of Wild Geese is

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