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You can stream Empire of Passion (1978) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

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.

A simmering, tactile eroticism radiates from the screen as a forbidden affair spirals into a bloody conspiracy. Every frame captures the suffocating heat of a rural landscape where obsession eventually demands a violent sacrifice.

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