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.
Empire of Passion
regret, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, sexual obsession, suspicion of murder, love, revenge, unfaithfulness, strangulation, hanging, vengeful ghost, older woman younger man relationship, pink film, ghost, rickshaw, flogging, tortured to death, japanese family, guilty conscience, crime of passion, meiji period, abandoned well, adulterous wife, leaves, haunting dreams, erotic romance, 1890s, ghostly hauntings, haunted woods, snowfall, wife and lover kill husband