Empire of Passion

Sep 6, 1978

1h 45m

★ 6.9

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Horror

Production Companies

TOHO-TOWA

Argos films

Oshima Productions

Empire of Passion Trailers

Cast

Gisaburo

Takahiro Tamura

Seki

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Toyoji

Tatsuya Fuji

Inspector Hotta

Takuzō Kawatani

Young Master's Mother

Akiko Koyama

Toichiro

Taiji Tonoyama

Young Master

Kenzō Kawarasaki

Odame

Sumie Sasaki

Eizō Kitamura

Takaaki Sugiura

Akiyoshi Fujiwara

Oshin

Masami Hasegawa

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