In The Realm Of Passion (Criterion) DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (English)
• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (Japanese)
• Double Obsession: Seki, Sada, and Oshima, a new video essay by film historian and critic Catherine Russell
• New interviews with actors Kazuko Yoshiyuki and tatsuya Fuji
• An interview program from 2003 featuring production consultant Koji Wakamatsu and assistant directors Yusuke Narita and Yoichi Sai
• U.S. trailer
• Optional English dubbed soundtrack
• Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by renowned critc and historian Tony Rayns and a 1978 interview with Nagisa Oshima

Director: Nagisa Oshima
Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzo Kawatani, Akiko Koyama

With an arresting mix of eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution in Empire Of Passion (Ai no borei). Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, the film details the emotional and physical downfall of a married woman (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) and her younger lover (Tatsuya Fuji) following their decision to murder her husband and dump his body in a well. Empire Of Passion was Oshima's only true kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and the film, a savage, unrelenting experience, earned him the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival.