Empire of Passion
Rating: 7.0/3166 Plot Summary:
A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Running time: 1h 45min
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Release date: 15 February 1980 (Sweden)
Cast: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Sumie Sasaki, Eizô Kitamura, Masami Hasegawa
