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The Wild Geese (Japanese: 雁, Hepburn: Gan) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda. The film is based on Mori Ōgai's novel of the same name. Hideko Takamine stars as Otama, a young woman who becomes the mistress of a married man in order to support her aging father.
Plot. Allen Faulkner, a former British Army colonel turned mercenary, arrives in London to meet merchant banker Sir Edward Matheson. The latter proposes an operation to rescue Julius Limbani, the imprisoned President of a southern African nation who is due for execution by General Ndofa.
Toyoda's "Wild Geese", a mournfully hopeful Meiji Era period drama, wades across the morass of sexual economics. Otama, a 23-year old woman abandoned by her fiancée, is unmarriagable due to her sexual impurity. Destitute and living with her candy peddler father, she accepts a… more.
Currently you are able to watch "The Wild Geese" streaming on Criterion Channel. Synopsis A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Mercenaries (Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris) for a London banker parachute into Africa to put a useful president back in power.
Nov 11, 1978 · The Wild Geese: Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger. A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.
The Wild Geese. A team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: recruit and train a squad of commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum security prison, escape via the military- controlled airport, and massacre anyone who gets in their way.
