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Based on the true story of a nineteenth century housewife. Seki and Toyoji are embarking on an illicit love affair, and decide that Seki's husband must die, rather than discover their sordid secret...

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EAN5055201816474

eBay Product ID (ePID)102607491

Product Key Features

ActorKazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura

Film/TV TitleEmpire of Passion

DirectorNagisa Oshima

LanguageJapanese

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time105 Mins

Release Year2011

FormatBluraydvd

FeaturesSur Le Tournage - 2003 interview program featuring production consultant Koji Wakamatsu and assistant directors Yusuke Narita and Yoichi Sai \Sex In Japanese Cinema û critical discussion of Empire of Passion\Booklet, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureJapan

Additional InformationEMPIRE OF PASSION follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational production, the chilling and erotic IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, which was banned in several countries and was disqualified from appearing at the Cannes Film Festival. This straightforward Japanese murder-mystery and ghost story, unlike that previous movie, does not focus on eroticism but concerns the aftermath of passion and the fruits of crime. In the story, based on an 1895 incident in rural Japan, Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki), a beautiful peasant woman, and her young lover Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji), conspire to murder her husband when their erotic games get out of hand. After getting the husband drunk, the two lovers kill him and throw his body down an abandoned well, claiming that he has gone to do business in Tokyo. In order to avoid suspicion, the two only see each other seldom. In the meantime, Seki begins seeing visions of her husband, and her grown stepdaughter has dreams of him. Guilt consumes both of them, and their nemesis, in the form of a bumbling police inspector sent to investigate an unrelated murder, pursues them.

ScreenwriterNagisa Oshima

AuthorItoko Namura

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleEmpire Of Passion

Consumer AdviceContains strong sex and nudity