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Empire of Passion (1978) is streaming on Criterion Channel.
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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.
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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Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Cast
Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Kenzō Kawarasaki, Sumie Sasaki, Eizō Kitamura, Takaaki Sugiura
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Empire of Passion
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6.8/10
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Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Cast
Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama, Kenzō Kawarasaki, Sumie Sasaki, Eizō Kitamura, Takaaki Sugiura
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Empire of Passion is streaming on Criterion Channel. Availability last verified October 14, 2026.