Empire of Passion

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

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Streaming availability

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Criterion Channel

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Cast

Takahiro Tamura

Gisaburo

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Seki

Tatsuya Fuji

Toyoji

Takuzō Kawatani

Inspector Hotta

Akiko Koyama

Young Master's Mother

Taiji Tonoyama

Toichiro

Kenzō Kawarasaki

Young Master

Sumie Sasaki

Odame

Eizō Kitamura

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Takaaki Sugiura

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Akiyoshi Fujiwara

Masami Hasegawa

Oshin

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Tatsuya Kimura

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Osugi

Dancer

Rinichi Yamamoto

Kurazo

Kei Satō

Orator

Kanae Kobayashi

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Tomi Mitsuboshi

Eiko Shinya

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Tatsuya Kimura

Crew

Camera

• Yoshio Miyajima Director of Photography

Directing

• Nagisa Ōshima Director

Editing

• Keiichi Uraoka Editor

Production

• Shigeru Wakatsuki Producer
• Anatole Dauman Producer

Sound

• Tōru Takemitsu Original Music Composer
• Tetsuo Yasuda Sound Recordist

Writing

• Itoko Nakamura Screenplay
• Nagisa Ōshima Writer