Empire of Passion
A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.
Starring Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzō Kawatani, Akiyoshi Fujiwara, Masami Hasegawa, Kenzō Kawarasaki, Tatsuya Kimura, Eizô Kitamura, Akiko Koyama
Watch "Empire of Passion" on Criterion Channel released in 1978. It's a drama and horror movie, and has a rating of 7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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