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Empire of Passion
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.
Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama
Crew: Nagisa Ōshima (Director), Toru Takemitsu (Original Music Composer), Shigeru Wakatsuki (Producer), Itoko Nakamura (Screenplay), Anatole Dauman (Producer), Nagisa Ōshima (Writer)
Country: France, Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: TOHO-TOWA, Argos Films, Oshima Productions, TOHO
Runtime: 105 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 06, 1978
IMDb: 4
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, wife and lover kill husband
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