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Empire of Passion

Empire of Passion

1978 · 105 min · JA · R · 6.8 (141 votes)
Dir. Nagisa Ōshima · Starring Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama · Music Tōru Takemitsu

“The haunting of a passionate love.”

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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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A suffocating atmosphere of repressed desire and simmering guilt. This film feels like a fever dream, where unspoken passions and dark secrets coil around the characters, leading to an inevitable, chilling climax.

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