Extremely Rough 'True Crime' Film from Katsuya Matsumura
(the director of the ALL NIGHT LONG series)

        

Original Japanese Title: Joshikôsei konkurîto-zume satsujin-jiken: Kowareta sebuntîn-tachi
[Female High School Coed Concrete Murder Case: Broken Teen 17]

director: Katsuya Matsumura
starring: Yûjin Kitagawa · Satoru Saitô · Eisuke Sasaiy

      

      

Katsuya Matsumura meticulously wrote and directed this shocking film based on the high school girl inside the concrete barrel murder case that took place in Japan (November 1988 to January 1989). A 17 year old female high school student, Junko Furuto, was abducted and confined to an attic room for 40 days by four male juveniles in the Ayase district of Adachi-ku, Tokyo. She was repeatedly raped, sexually humiliated and tortured before finally dying after a severe beating. The boys hid her corpse in a waste-drum filled with cement. Her body was discovered a month later.

Before embarking on his ALL NIGHT LONG series, Katsuya Matsumura was a respected, award-winning documentary filmmaker. After graduating from college in 1985, he delivered a movie on pollution in Japan's Doroku area which won the grand prize at the Mainichi Film Festival in 1988. That project financed ALL NIGHT LONG (1992), a movie for which he won Best Director at the prestigious Yokohama Film Festival. In late '94, he began researching and shooting HIGH SCHOOL GIRL INSIDE CONCRETE BARREL. While working on this film he also put together a fictionalize account of the 'cement barrel murder' released later in '95 as ALL NIGHT LONG 2: ATROCITY. The ALL NIGHT LONG series continued into 2009 (see ALL NIGHT LONG 3, ALL NIGHT LONG 4: INITIAL O, ALL NIGHT LONG 5 [R] and ALL NIGHT LONG 6: ANYONE AT RANDOM).