Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)
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.
Director: Noboru Tanaka
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Hideo Murota as Taizo Eguchi |
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Noriko Kurosawa as Emiko Eguchi - Taizo's wife |
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Akiko Shikata as Yaeko Ozaki |
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Masato Furuoya as Shozo Utagawa |
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Hiroshi Fukami as Reiji Ikemoto |
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Akira Sakai as Zensaku Arita |
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Moeko Ezawa as |
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Hōsei Komatsu as Kurazo Utagawa |
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Haruko Toda as |
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Seiji Endō as |
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Takashi Sue as |
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Rei Okamoto as Sadako Arita |
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Imari Tsuji as Kayo Utagawa |
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Iwao Dan as |
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Asami Oka as |
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Tayori Hinatsu as Naoko Katayama |
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Tokie Kanda as |
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Hirono Yamakawa as |
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Tatsuya Hamaguchi as |
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Ichiro Kijima as |
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Maya Kudô as Shizuko Ikemoto |
| Directing | Noboru Tanaka | Director |
| Writing | Hideo Osabe | Story |
| Writing | Susumu Saji | Writer |
| Production | Akira Miura | Producer |
| Camera | Masaru Mori | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Katsumasa Naoi | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Eiji Kimura | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Kazuo Yagyu | Art Direction |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Directing | Yoshihisa Nakagawa | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Hideki Ishima | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Nobuhiko Shinohara | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Katsuyoshi Aoyagi | Color Grading |