Empire of Passion – Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) Blu Ray – Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura 

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray and DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD  In feudal Japan a young soldier begins an intense affair with an older married woman Driven by passion obsession and jealousy they decide to violently murder her husband and dispose of the body in a nearby well Claiming her husband is working away from home the couple carry on their affair in secret Three years later her husband returns from the dead to haunt the illicit couple feeding off their guilt and pushing them deeper into the dark realms of insanity With films such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Gohatto and the infamous In The Realm Of The Senses director Nagisa Oshima is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Japanese cinema Made in 1978 Empire Of Passion is an atmospheric unsettling and unforgettable experience A huge influence on contemporary Asian horror it has lost none of its beguiling power

Made while the director, Nagisa Oshima, was being prosecuted for the publication of the script to his previous film, the controversial ‘Ai No Corrida’ (‘Empire of the Senses’), this companion piece to the earlier film won the Best Director Prize for Oshima at the Cannes film festival in 1978. Here the action is set in Japan in 1895 when a wife and her young lover, a recently discharged soldier, murder the wife’s elderly husband, a rickshaw man, only to be haunted three years later by the old man’s ghost. Their crime haunts them and ultimately they are caught by a cruel policeman.

In feudal Japan a young soldier begins an intense affair with an older married woman. Driven by passion, obsession and jealousy they decide to violently murder her husband and dispose of the body in a nearby well. Claiming her husband is working away from home the couple carry on their affair in secret. Three years later her husband returns from the dead to haunt the illicit couple, feeding off their guilt and pushing them deeper into the dark realms of insanity.With films such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Gohatto and the infamous In The Realm Of The Senses, director Nagisa Oshima is one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in Japanese cinema. Made in 1978, Empire Of Passion is an atmospheric, unsettling and unforgettable experience. A huge influence on contemporary Asian horror it has lost none of its beguiling power.