Between these two films, there are similar and difference. First let talk about the similarity between these two. As I had seemed, both of them has the same background. In The Joy Luck Club, the four mothers were living in a same culture and situation same as the main character in Raise the Red Lantern. Some of them were living in a poor family. However, they were living in the situation that women had less power than men. And they had no choices to choose a marriage what they want to. Some married to a rich family because of poor situation. No matter how they got married in that time, but as I had seemed they had same ending. It was they were not happy in their marriage. And this affected their whole life, accept the view of life.