Golden Pavilion Temple (new Translation)
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"Loneliness swells rapidly, like a fat pig." Mizoguchi, a young man, was born with a stutter, was withdrawn since childhood, and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions are also a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.
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