Concrete (2004)

Original title

コンクリート

Directed by

Hiromu Nakamura

Genre

crime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 53m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four boys kidnap a girl named Misaki. They rape, torture, and murder her. The film also shows the social conditions that shaped the boys.

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What happens

Concrete (コンクリート, Konkurīto) also released as Schoolgirl in Cement is a 2004 independently produced Japanese film directed by Hiromu Nakamura. The film is based on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta and it deals as much with the social factors that produced Furuta's four assailants as it does with Furuta's suffering at their hands. The film involves four boys who kidnap a girl named Misaki. The boys rape, torture, and murder her in a similar manner to the manner of the boys who killed Junko Furuta. Many people protested the film's release before it even premiered, and it was eventually relegated to specialty theater showings and a DVD release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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