Hero of the Red Light District vs Lumumba
Hero of the Red Light District has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.8/10 for Lumumba). Hero of the Red Light District is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 1h 55m. Hero of the Red Light District is the older of the two (1960 against 2000). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hero of the Red Light District
Lumumba| Hero of the Red Light District | Lumumba | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.7/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 1960 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 49m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Tomu Uchida | Raoul Peck |
| Main cast | Harumi Matsukaze, Chiezo Kataoka, Isao Kimura, Shinnosuke Ogata, Yoshie Mizutani | Ériq Ebouaney, Olivier Bony, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto |
Synopsis
Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a…
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