Overview
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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Based on
Based on the novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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Setting
Set in Japan
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Music
Music by Toshiro Mayuzumi
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Yukio MishimaNovel
- Keiji HasebeScreenplay
- Natto WadaScreenplay
- Kon IchikawaScreenplay
- Original title
- 炎上
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 19, 1958
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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In the United States
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Cast
Raizō IchikawaGoichi Mizoguchi
Ganjirō Nakamura IITayama Dosen
Tatsuya NakadaiTokari
Tanie KitabayashiAki, Goichi's mother- Yoichi FunakiTsurukawa
Jun HamamuraGoichi's Father
Yōko Uraji
Michiyo AratamaMistress of the floral art
Kinzō Shin
Tamao NakamuraWoman at Gobancho
Ryōsuke KagawaPriest Zenkai
Kōichi MizuharaProsecutor
Yūsaku Terashima- Hiroshi UedaMan in suit
- Yasuhiko Shima
Saburo DatePolice detective A- Sentarô GodaiYoung man
- Sumao Ishihara
Jun Fujikawa- Takeo Inoue
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