Empire of Passion
- Drama
- Horror
- Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
- Directed by
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Written by
- Itoko Nakamura, Nagisa Ōshima
Cast
- Takahiro Tamura
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Tatsuya Fuji
- Takuzō Kawatani
- Akiko Koyama
- Taiji Tonoyama
- Kenzō Kawarasaki
- Sumie Sasaki
- Eizō Kitamura
- Takaaki Sugiura
- Akiyoshi Fujiwara
- Masami Hasegawa
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- revenge
- ghost
- regret
- love
- husband wife relationship
- strangulation
- sexual obsession
- hanging
- older woman younger man relationship
- suspicion of murder
- 1890s
- guilty conscience
- erotic romance
- unfaithfulness
- adulterous wife
- meiji period
- tortured to death
- japanese family
- vengeful ghost
- pink film
- rickshaw
- flogging
- crime of passion
- abandoned well
- leaves
- haunting dreams
- ghostly hauntings
- haunted woods
- snowfall
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