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Empire of Passion

Original title: 愛の亡霊

The haunting of a passionate love.

  • Movie
  • 1978
  • R
  • 1h 45m

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima

6.8

TMDB audience rating
6.8 out of 10 from 142 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Takahiro Tamura

    Takahiro TamuraGisaburo

  • Kazuko Yoshiyuki

    Kazuko YoshiyukiSeki

  • Tatsuya Fuji

    Tatsuya FujiToyoji

  • Takuzō Kawatani

    Takuzō KawataniInspector Hotta

  • Akiko Koyama

    Akiko KoyamaYoung Master's Mother

  • Taiji Tonoyama

    Taiji TonoyamaToichiro

  • Kenzō Kawarasaki

    Kenzō KawarasakiYoung Master

  • Sumie Sasaki

    Sumie SasakiOdame

  • Eizō Kitamura

    Eizō Kitamura

  • Takaaki Sugiura

  • Akiyoshi Fujiwara

  • Masami Hasegawa

    Masami HasegawaOshin

  • Tatsuya Kimura

  • OsugiDancer

  • Rinichi Yamamoto

    Rinichi YamamotoKurazo

  • Kei Satō

    Kei SatōOrator

  • Kanae Kobayashi

    Kanae Kobayashi

  • Tomi Mitsuboshi

Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Writer
Itoko Nakamura and Nagisa Ōshima
Music
Tōru Takemitsu
Cinematography
Yoshio Miyajima