Based on the infamous "Concrete-encased high school girl murder case" that took place from November 1988 to January 1989 in Japan. Junko Furuta, a female 17 year old high school student, was kidnapped and confined in a house by four other male high school students (all juvenile) in the Ayase district of Adachi-ku, Tokyo, where she was repeatedly raped, sexually humiliated and tortured in an extremely brutish manner for 41 days before she finally died after a particularly severe beating. The boys hid her body in a drum and filled it with concrete, but the body was nonetheless discovered a few months later.
Direction
Matsumura's unblinking camera refuses you the comfort of looking away.
Practical Effects
Low-budget 90s grit makes everything feel grimier, more real, more wrong.
Director
Katsuya Matsumura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real case sparked Japan's juvenile law debate; this 1995 film was one of several exploitation versions made while the killers were still being released from prison. The victim's family has repeatedly condemned all adaptations.
Director Katsuya Matsumura was a pink film veteran who specialized in 'violence pink' — this represents the genre's most morally queasy intersection with documented reality.
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