FilmSplatter & Gore Psychological

Concrete2004

Name: Concrete
Genre: Splatter & Gore, Psychological
Released: 2004-02-11
Rating: 5.4

Directed by Hiromu Nakumura

5.4

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IMDb 4.4TMDB 5.0

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Year

2004

Runtime

113 min

The premise

On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.

Horror Vault's take

Based on one of Japan's most notorious real-life crimes, Concrete dramatizes the prolonged abduction and captivity of a teenage girl at the hands of four young perpetrators in late 1980s Tokyo. The film does not flinch from the sustained cruelty inflicted upon its victim, forcing the viewer to sit with the full weight of her ordeal. It is less a thriller than a harrowing document of evil — an unflinching look at how ordinary social structures can fail catastrophically. This is extreme Japanese cinema at its most confrontational and morally serious.

Content: Graphic Depictions Of Sexual Violence, Prolonged Torture Sequences, Violence Against A Minor, Extreme Physical And Psychological Abuse, Disturbing True-Crime Content