Empire of Passion (1978)
The haunting of a passionate love.
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.
Keywords
1890s
abandoned well
adulterous wife
based on novel or book
crime of passion
erotic romance
flogging
ghost
ghostly hauntings
guilty conscience
hanging
haunted woods
haunting dreams
husband wife relationship
japanese family
leaves
love
meiji period
older woman younger man relationship
pink film
regret
revenge
rickshaw
sexual obsession
snowfall
strangulation
suspicion of murder
tortured to death
unfaithfulness
vengeful ghost