Empire of Passion (1978)
06/09/1978
Drama, Romance, Horror
1h 45m
- 70% (116 votes)
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The haunting of a passionate love.
Overview
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
- Nagisa ŌshimaDirector, Writer
- Itoko NakamuraScreenplay
Original Title
愛の亡霊
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Keywords
- regret
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- suspicion of murder
- love
- revenge
- unfaithfulness
- strangulation
- hanging
- vengeful ghost
- older woman younger man relationship
- pink film
- ghost
- rickshaw
- flogging
- tortured to death
- japanese family
- guilty conscience
- crime of passion
- meiji period
- abandoned well
- adulterous wife
- leaves
- haunting dreams
- erotic romance
- 1890s
- ghostly hauntings
- haunted woods
- snowfall
Top Billed Cast
Takahiro Tamura
Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Seki
Tatsuya Fuji
Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani
Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama
Young Master's Mother
Taiji Tonoyama
Toichiro
Kenzō Kawarasaki
Young Master
Sumie Sasaki
Odame
Eizō Kitamura
Takaaki Sugiura
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