1978
7.0 (118 votes)
1h 45m
Genres
Drama
Romance
Horror
Production Companies
TOHO-TOWA
Argos films
Oshima Productions
Argos films
Oshima Productions
Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Screenplay: Itoko Nakamura
Writer: Nagisa Ōshima
Producer: Anatole Dauman, Shigeru Wakatsuki
Director of Photography: Yoshio Miyajima
Top 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
Videos
Empire of Passion (1978) US trailer
