Movie
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1976 · 110 min
A slow, oppressive immersion into a disturbed mind, beautiful and unsettling, where obsession curdles into something quietly destructive.
- Directed by
- Yoichi Takabayashi
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu, Yoshie Shimamura
- Overview
- The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.
- How it feels
- Dark, bleak, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Obsession, identity, isolation, madness
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Yoichi Takabayashi
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu, Yoshie Shimamura
