Empire of Passion
愛の亡霊
1978 · 1h 45m · Drama, Horror, Romance · Japan, France · Rated R (US)
The haunting of a passionate love.
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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Nagisa Ōshima6.5Smart score
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1890sabandoned welladulterous wifebased on novel or bookcrime of passionerotic romancefloggingghostghostly hauntingsguilty consciencehanginghaunted woodshaunting dreamshusband wife relationshipjapanese familyleaveslovemeiji periodolder woman younger man relationshippink filmregretrevengerickshawsexual obsessionsnowfallstrangulationsuspicion of murdertortured to deathunfaithfulnessvengeful ghost
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