Rape and Death of a Housewife vs The Godfather

The Godfather has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.5/10 for Rape and Death of a Housewife). Rape and Death of a Housewife is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 55m. The Godfather is the older of the two (1972 against 1978). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Rape and Death of a Housewife posterRape and Death of a Housewife1978 VS The Godfather posterThe Godfather1972
Rape and Death of a HousewifeThe Godfather
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.7/10
Year19781972
Length1h 36m2h 55m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama
Country–United States of America
DirectorNoboru TanakaFrancis Ford Coppola
Main castHideo Murota, Hōsei Komatsu, Moeko Ezawa, Haruko Toda, Noriko KurosawaRobert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Al Pacino

Synopsis

Rape and Death of a Housewife

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.

The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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