Rape and Death of a Housewife

Year: 1978

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Noboru Tanaka

DramaCrime

Three intoxicated boys violently assault Emiko, the wife of a chicken farmer with whom they have formed a friendship. During the attack she suffers a fatal heart attack. Grief‑stricken, her husband cannot accept her loss and continues to tend to her body as if she were still alive, unable to confront her death.

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