Rape and Death of a Housewife

Jul 8, 1978

1h 36m

★ 6.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Taizo Eguchi

Hideo Murota

Emiko Eguchi - Taizo's wife

Noriko Kurosawa

Yaeko Ozaki

Akiko Shikata

Shozo Utagawa

Masato Furuoya

Reiji Ikemoto

Hiroshi Fukami

Zensaku Arita

Akira Sakai

Moeko Ezawa

Kurazo Utagawa

Hōsei Komatsu

Haruko Toda

Seiji Endō

Takashi Sue

Sadako Arita

Rei Okamoto

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