Empire of Passion

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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Nagisa Ōshima directed Empire of Passion in 1978. See Nagisa Ōshima's full filmography, where to start with Nagisa Ōshima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nagisa Ōshima.

Empire of Passion was released in 1978 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 105 minutes.