Concrete
5/10
Rating
113 min
Runtime
2004
Release Year
Hiromu Nakumura
Director
Cast
Miki Komori, Katsuya Kobayashi, Masanori Machida, Kensuke Mano, Mika Mifune
Quick Synopsis
On November 25, 1988, four young men kidnapped Furuta Junko and held her captive in the home of one of them. During her 41 days of captivity, Junko was subjected to repeated rape, torture, and humiliation, with no chance to escape. The captors forced her to deceive her parents by telling them she was safe, which delayed the police investigation. After a game of mahjong solitaire, the captors brutally beat her with an iron dumbbell and set her on fire using lighter fluid, leading to her death from shock later that day. To conceal their crime, they encased her body in cement and buried it in a drum, which they then disposed of on reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo. This case, known as the 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case,' shocked Japan and brought attention to the severity of the crime.
Detailed Synopsis of Concrete
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.
