Empire of Passion
1978
The haunting of a passionate love.
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
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A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
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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
- Japanese
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Ghost of Love, In the Realm of Passion
- TMDB
- 6.9/10 (139 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 80% Fresh
- IMDb
- 7.0/10 (5,390 votes)
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
Takaaki Sugiura
Akiyoshi Fujiwara
Masami Hasegawa
Oshin
Tatsuya Kimura
Osugi
Dancer
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kurazo
Kei Satō
Orator
Kanae Kobayashi
Tomi Mitsuboshi
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