Empire of Passion

March. 26,1979      R
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Takahiro Tamura as  Gisaburo
Kazuko Yoshiyuki as  Seki
Tatsuya Fuji as  Toyoji
Takuzō Kawatani as  Inspector Hotta
Akiko Koyama as  Mother of Landowner
Taiji Tonoyama as  Toichiro
Sumie Sasaki as  Odame

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