# Empire of Passion (1978)

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**Original title**: *愛の亡霊*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, Horror
**Directed by**: Nagisa Ōshima
**Written by**: Nagisa Ōshima, Itoko Nakamura
**Starring**: Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiko Koyama, Taiji Tonoyama

> *The haunting of a passionate love.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dust-choked lanes after dusk. A hamlet’s edge where a discarded obi whispers nightly. The rickshaw man’s wife and a youth plot in hushed strokes behind shifting paper screens. A single blade glints then vanishes.

Ōshima turns Meiji-era longing into a ghost story told in lingering torches and trembling shadows.

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