Empire of Passion
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Director Nagisa Oshima Music director Toru Takemitsu Duration Language Japanese | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Horror, Romance Screenplay Nagisa Oshima Country FranceJapan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 6, 1978 (1978-10-06) (Japan) Writer Itoko Nakamura (story), Nagisa Oshima Initial release September 6, 1978 (France) Cast (Toyoji), (Seki), (Gisaburo), (Inspector Hotta), Akiyoshi Fujiwara , Masami Hasegawa (Oshin)Similar movies Secret Things , Body of Evidence , La Belle Noiseuse , Color of Night , The Story of O , Bitter Moon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Empire of Passion (愛の亡霊, Ai no Bōrei) is a 1978 French-Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. Also released on DVD by Fox Lorber Films in 2000 under the title "In the Realm of Passion" (probably to more easily identify it as a type of indirect sequel to the 1976 film "In the Realm of the Senses" by the same director).
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Plot
The plot revolves around a young man who has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband has had plenty of shōchū to drink and is in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.
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Release
The film was Japan's submission to the 51st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where Oshima won the award for Best Director.
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