Empire of Passion (1978)
愛の亡霊
"The haunting of a passionate love."
ThumbScore
👍 81%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 80%
(RT: 80%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Takahiro Tamura as Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Seki
Tatsuya Fuji as Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani as Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama as Young Master's Mother
Kenzō Kawarasaki as Young Master
Sumie Sasaki as Odame
Is Empire of Passion good?
Most people think so. 81% audience score, estimated from 141 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
