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Conflagration
JAPAN · 1958

Conflagration

Kon Ichikawa
master and student buddhist temple arson kyoto, japan conflagration
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Synopsis

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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