Rape and Death of a Housewife vs The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects has the higher audience score (8.2/10 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 1h 46m. Rape and Death of a Housewife is the older of the two (1978 against 1995). 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 Usual Suspects posterThe Usual Suspects1995
Rape and Death of a HousewifeThe Usual Suspects
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.2/10
Year19781995
Length1h 36m1h 46m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorNoboru TanakaBryan Singer
Main castHideo Murota, Hōsei Komatsu, Moeko Ezawa, Haruko Toda, Noriko KurosawaKevin Pollak, Giancarlo Esposito, Benicio del Toro, Dan Hedaya, Kevin Spacey

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 Usual Suspects

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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