Blood of Revenge vs The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.7/10 for Blood of Revenge). Blood of Revenge is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 32m. Blood of Revenge is the older of the two (1965 against 1989). Both are action movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Blood of Revenge posterBlood of Revenge1965 VS The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro posterThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro1989
Blood of RevengeThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 9.0/10
Year19651989
Length1h 31m1h 32m
GenresActionAction, Drama
Country–Australia
DirectorTai KatōRobert L. Collins
Main castMasahiko Tsugawa, Sumiko Fuji, Tetsuro Tamba, Harumi Sone, Akira ShiojiLee Grant, Robert Mammone, Christina Pickles, E.G. Marshall, Barry Otto

Synopsis

Blood of Revenge

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

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