Empire of Passion

The plot revolves around a young man who has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband has had plenty of shōchū to drink and is in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other.

Credits

Directed by
Nagisa Ōshima
Written by
Nagisa Ōshima
Cast
Takuzō Kawatani, Takahiro Tamura, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Taiji Tonoyama
Produced by
Anatole Dauman
Cinematography
Yoshio Miyajima
Music
Tōru Takemitsu

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (Movie Plots dataset) — title, year, creator, description
  2. Wikidata · Q1659440 ↗ — length, color, country, genre, credits