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Empire of Passion  (1978)
The haunting of a passionate love.


7.0|6 Sept, 1978|105 min
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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.
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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

Casts

Takahiro Tamura
Takahiro Tamura
Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Seki
Tatsuya Fuji
Tatsuya Fuji
Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani
Takuzō Kawatani
Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama
Akiko Koyama
Young Master's Mother
Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama
Toichiro
Kenzō Kawarasaki
Kenzō Kawarasaki
Young Master
Sumie Sasaki
Sumie Sasaki
Odame
Eizō Kitamura
Eizō Kitamura
Takaaki Sugiura
Akiyoshi Fujiwara
Masami Hasegawa
Oshin
Tatsuya Kimura
Osugi
Dancer
Rinichi Yamamoto
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kurazo
Kei Satō
Kei Satō
Orator
Kanae Kobayashi
Kanae Kobayashi
Tomi Mitsuboshi
Eiko Shinya
Eiko Shinya
Tatsuya Kimura

Crews

Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima
Writer
Keiichi Uraoka
Keiichi Uraoka
Editor
Itoko Nakamura
Screenplay
Anatole Dauman
Anatole Dauman
Producer
Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima
Director
Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu
Original Music Composer
Shigeru Wakatsuki
Producer
Tetsuo Yasuda
Sound Recordist
Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography

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