Empire of Passion (1978)
Ai no bôrei
The haunting of a passionate love.
105 min
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.
- Release date
- May 19, 1978
- Country of origin
- Japan, France
- Music
- Tôru Takemitsu
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Takahiro Tamura as Gisaburo
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Seki
- Tatsuya Fuji as Toyoji
- Takuzô Kawatani as Hotta
- Akiko Koyama as Gisaburo's Mother
- Taiji Tonoyama as Toichiro
- Kenzô Kawarasaki as Young Master
- Sumie Sasaki as Odame
- Eizô Kitamura
- Masami Hasegawa as Oshin
- Tatsuya Kimura
- Rin'ichi Yamamoto as Kurazo
- Kei Satō as Orator
- Kanae Kobayashi
- Eiko Shinya
Crew
- Nagisa Ōshima · Director
- Itoko Nakamura · Writer
- Nagisa Ōshima · Writer
- Anatole Dauman · Producer
- Tôru Takemitsu · Composer
- Yoshio Miyajima · Cinematographer
- Keiichi Uraoka · Editor