Hero of the Red Light District vs The Bang Bang Club
Hero of the Red Light District has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.6/10 for The Bang Bang Club). The Bang Bang Club is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 1h 49m. Hero of the Red Light District is the older of the two (1960 against 2011). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hero of the Red Light District
The Bang Bang Club| Hero of the Red Light District | The Bang Bang Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.7/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 1960 | 2011 |
| Length | 1h 49m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Drama, History | Drama, History |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Tomu Uchida | Steven Silver |
| Main cast | Harumi Matsukaze, Chiezo Kataoka, Isao Kimura, Shinnosuke Ogata, Yoshie Mizutani | Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Malin Åkerman, Patrick Lyster, Frank Rautenbach |
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.
The Bang Bang Club
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and upheaval leading up to the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president. Their work is risky and dangerous, potentially fatally so, as they thrust themselves into the…
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