Rape and Death of a Housewife vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption 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 22m. Rape and Death of a Housewife is the older of the two (1978 against 1994). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Rape and Death of a Housewife
The Shawshank Redemption| Rape and Death of a Housewife | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 1978 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Noboru Tanaka | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Hideo Murota, Hōsei Komatsu, Moeko Ezawa, Haruko Toda, Noriko Kurosawa | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
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 Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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