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Empire of Passion (1978)

Empire of Passion (1978)

Drama Romance Horror

The haunting of a passionate love.

Release Date: 1978, September 6
Directors: Nagisa Ōshima
Countries: France, Japan
Production: TOHO-TOWA, Argos films, Oshima Productions
Cast: Kei Satō, Tatsuya Fuji, Taiji Tonoyama, Akiko Koyama, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Rinichi Yamamoto, Takahiro Tamura, Kenzō Kawarasaki, Takuzō Kawatani, Sumie Sasaki, Masami Hasegawa, Osugi

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book revenge love ghost regret husband wife relationship erotic romance hanging older woman younger man relationship sexual obsession adulterous wife suspicion of murder 1890s guilty conscience japanese family unfaithfulness meiji period pink film tortured to death strangulation vengeful ghost rickshaw flogging crime of passion abandoned well leaves haunting dreams ghostly hauntings haunted woods snowfall