Empire of Passion (1978)
Original Title: 愛の亡霊
Drama
Horror
Romance
7.0 (118 votes)
1h 45m
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.
Details
- Director
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Writer
- Itoko Nakamura
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Akiko Koyama
Eiz? Kitamura
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Kenz? Kawarasaki
Sumie Sasaki
Taiji Tonoyama
Takaaki Sugiura
Takahiro Tamura
Takuz? Kawatani
Tatsuya Fuji
Keywords
1890s
abandoned well
adulterous wife
based on novel or book
crime of passion
erotic romance
flogging
ghost
ghostly hauntings
guilty conscience
hanging
haunted woods
haunting dreams
husband wife relationship
japanese family
leaves
love
meiji period
older woman younger man relationship
pink film
regret
revenge
rickshaw
sexual obsession
snowfall
strangulation
suspicion of murder
tortured to death
unfaithfulness
vengeful ghost
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