Empire of Passion
DramaRomanceHorror
6.851/10
|JP
|ja
|105 min
Release Date: 1978-09-06
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.
Production Companies
TOHO-TOWAArgos filmsOshima Productions
User Reviews
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talisencrw
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 in 1895), though far less scandalous in its sexuality, though still titillating nevertheless. Exile...
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