Conflagration (1958)
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Top billed cast
Raizō IchikawaGoichi Mizoguchi
Tatsuya NakadaiTokari
Michiyo AratamaMistress of the floral art
Ganjirō Nakamura IITayama Dosen
Yōko Uraji
Tamao NakamuraWoman at Gobancho- Yoichi FunakiTsurukawa
Tanie KitabayashiAki, Goichi's mother
Kinzō Shin
Ryōsuke KagawaPriest Zenkai
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