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Empire of Passion

Name: Empire of Passion
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Genre: Drama, Romance, Horror
Released: 1978
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama

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.

1978 · Directed by Nagisa Ōshima · 105 min · Drama · Romance · Horror · 8 frames

Tagline

The haunting of a passionate love.

Crew

Screenplay: Itoko Nakamura
Written by: Nagisa Ōshima
Cinematography: Yoshio Miyajima
Edited by: Keiichi Uraoka
Music: Tōru Takemitsu
Produced by: Anatole Dauman, Shigeru Wakatsuki

Cast

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

Production

Country: Japan, France
Language: Japanese
Studios: TOHO-TOWA, Argos films, Oshima Productions
Themes: regret, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, sexual obsession, suspicion of murder, love, revenge, unfaithfulness, strangulation, hanging

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