in 1895 and in a small village in japan and the wife of the litter carrier gisaburo ( takahiro tamura ) and seki ( kazuko yoshiyuki ) and have an affair with a man twenty six year young and toyiji ( tatsuya fuji ) . toyiji become jealous of gisaburo and plot with seki to kill him . they strangle gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the wood and and seki tell the local that gisaburo move to tokyo to work . three year later and the local gossip about the fate of gisaburo and and seki be haunt by his ghost . the situation become unbearable to seki and toyiji when a police authority come to the village to investigate the disappearance of gisaburo . ai no borei be a surreal and supernatural love story . the remorse and the guilty complex of seki make her see the ghost of her murdered husband and spoil the perfect plot of her lover . the cinematography be jeopardize by the quality of the vhs release in brazil and but there be very beautiful scene and inclusive ringu and the american remake the ring use the view of the well from inside in the same angle . the performance and direction be excellent make ai no borei a great movie . my vote be eight . title ( brazil ) represent o império da paixão ( the empire of passion ) .