Empire of Passion (1978)
09/06/1978 (JP) • 1h 45m
The haunting of a passionate love.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Gisaburo
Seki
Toyoji
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Toichiro
Young Master
Odame
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Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Budget
-
Revenue
-
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
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