Ai no bôrei / Empire of Passion (1978)

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. How many love stories we can been see befor? A great many, but perhaps no one couldn't show love, like do it Nagisa Oshima. At the Cannes Film Festival, lot of candals and attempts to ban film "Bullfighting of Love" only increased interest to movie, it had to be shown 13 times (an unprecedented case in the history of the "World Cup" in cinema ), however, already out of competition. This is a wonderful, high-quality erotic film with great acting and a complex idea, rare picture in which the most frank part of a person's intimate life has turned into an object of high creativity and becomes a test for hypocrisy