Supernatural & Occult, Human Monsters, Genre Hybrids, Movements & Traditions
Empire of Passion
1978
The haunting of a passionate love.
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
User Rating
3.0
avg.
111
Intensity
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.
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- Director
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Written by
- Itoko Nakamura, Nagisa Ōshima
- Produced by
- Anatole Dauman, Shigeru Wakatsuki
- Composer
- Toru Takemitsu
- Cinematographer
- Yoshio Miyajima
- Editor
- Keiichi Uraoka
- Studios
- TOHO-TOWA, Argos films, Oshima Productions
- Origin country
- Japan
- Production countries
- Japan, France
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Language
- ja
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Ghost of Love, In the Realm of Passion
- TMDB
- 6.9/10 (134 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 80% Fresh
- IMDb
- 7.0/10 (5,390 votes)
Released September 6, 1978·愛の亡霊
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
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Tatsuya Kimura
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Osugi
Dancer
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kurazo
Kei Satō
Orator
Kanae Kobayashi
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Tomi Mitsuboshi
Crew
Keywords
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