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Empire of Passion 1978

“The haunting of a passionate love.”

★ 6.9/10 R DramaRomanceHorror Released

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima

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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.

regrethusband wife relationshipbased on novel or booksexual obsessionsuspicion of murderloverevengeunfaithfulnessstrangulationhangingvengeful ghostolder woman younger man relationship

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Cast

Takahiro Tamura Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki Seki
Tatsuya Fuji Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama Young Master's Mother
Taiji Tonoyama Toichiro
Kenzō Kawarasaki Young Master
Sumie Sasaki Odame
Eizō Kitamura
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Takaaki Sugiura
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Akiyoshi Fujiwara
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Masami Hasegawa Oshin