Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds

A grim, unrelenting descent into cruelty and suffering, offering little relief and leaving a heavy, haunting aftertaste.

Directed by

Katsuya Matsumura

Genres

Crime, Horror, Thriller

Starring

Yujin Kitagawa, Satoru Saito, Eisuke Sasai

Overview

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.

How it feels

Bleak, dark, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Violence, trauma, isolation, crime

Content

Strong violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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