Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer.
Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous Temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple\'s beauty..
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer