Empire of Passion (1978)

Movie Details

Original Title 愛の亡霊

Original Language JA

Status Released

Popularity 1.2

Cast

Takahiro Tamura

Gisaburo

Popularity: 1.4

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Seki

Popularity: 1.3

Tatsuya Fuji

Toyoji

Popularity: 1.6

Takuzō Kawatani

Inspector Hotta

Popularity: 1.3

Akiko Koyama

Young Master's Mother

Popularity: 1.1

Taiji Tonoyama

Toichiro

Popularity: 1.3

Kenzō Kawarasaki

Young Master

Popularity: 0.7

Sumie Sasaki

Odame

Popularity: 0.9

Eizō Kitamura

Popularity: 0.6

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Takaaki Sugiura

Popularity: 0.0

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Akiyoshi Fujiwara

Popularity: 0.0

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Masami Hasegawa

Oshin

Popularity: 0.1

Key Crew

Director Nagisa Ōshima

Producer Shigeru Wakatsuki, Anatole Dauman

Screenplay Itoko Nakamura

Writer Nagisa Ōshima

Editor Keiichi Uraoka

Production

TOHO-TOWA

Argos films

Oshima Productions

Videos & Trailers

Empire of Passion (1978) US trailer

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Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

talisencrw 9/10

Jan 15, 2016

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 tim ... Read more