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Empire of Passion

1978 · 105 min

A slow, oppressive descent into guilt and erotic obsession, where ghostly dread seeps through village gossip and the weight of a terrible secret.

Tagline
The haunting of a passionate love.
Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • death
  • isolation
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism7
Romance6
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance, horror
Directed by
Nagisa Ōshima
Written by
Nagisa Ōshima, Itoko Nakamura
Starring
Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Kenzō Kawarasaki, Sumie Sasaki
Music
Tōru Takemitsu
Cinematography
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Runtime
105 min
Country
Japan, France
Languages
Japanese

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