Empire of Passion

Synopsis

In a Japanese village in 1895, Toyoji comes home from the army and lusts after Seki, the rickshaw driver’s wife. He is much younger than she is and not a patient man. Together they kill her husband, throw the body down a dry well and cover it with leaves. Three years pass, and the neighbours still wonder what became of Gisaburo. That is when Seki starts to see him.