

Empire of Passion
Drama
Romance
Horror
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.
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Keywords
regret
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
sexual obsession
suspicion of murder
love
revenge
unfaithfulness
strangulation
hanging
vengeful ghost
older woman younger man relationship
pink film
ghost
rickshaw
flogging
tortured to death
japanese family
guilty conscience
crime of passion
meiji period
abandoned well
adulterous wife
leaves
haunting dreams
erotic romance
1890s
ghostly hauntings
haunted woods
snowfall
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Reviews(1)
9.0avg rating
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talisencrw
January 15, 2016
9
9/10
I am a great fan of Ôshima's work, though unfortunately I have only seen previously six films of his, all between 1965's 'Pleasures of the Flesh' and 1976's extremely controversial 'In the Realm of the Senses'. This, like the latter, was a period piece that looked at a doomed relationship (this time…
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