Empire of Passion (1978)

09/06/1978 (JP) • 1h 45m

Drama, Romance, Horror

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


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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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