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Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds
Representation Score
1.2/10
Minimal
1995
Director
Katsuya Matsumura
Runtime
68 minutes
Average Rating
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The film is a harsh look at social collapse and individual vulnerability. It uses extreme victimization to highlight the darker sides of social behavior, but it does not provide progressive representation. The story focuses on a single, brutalized identity and lacks complexity in representing different aspects of people's identities. The narrative reinforces predatory hierarchies, even though it critiques them through horror. Ultimately, the film presents a grim portrayal of a real-world atrocity, emphasizing the failure of social institutions to protect individuals.
Category Breakdown
Does Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds have LGBTQ+ representation?
The film does not include any LGBTQ+ characters or narratives that question the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.
How does Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds portray gender?
The story focuses on extreme violence against women, showing them as passive victims rather than active participants in their own stories.
How racially and ethnically diverse is Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds?
The film reflects a homogeneous Japanese society without including characters from different racial backgrounds.
How does Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds represent religion and culture?
The story critiques the failures of community structures, highlighting the cruelty within a structured society.
Does Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds include disability representation?
The film does not portray any characters with disabilities having control over their lives; instead, it shows them as victims of violence.
Present on Screen
- Provides a critical view of the failure of social and community structures to prevent extreme deviance.
Limited or Absent
- Lacks complexity in representing different aspects of people's identities and meaningful control for the victim.
- Reinforces predatory hierarchies through the depiction of extreme violence against women.
- Does not include LGBTQ+ perspectives or diverse racial casting.
Official Synopsis
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.
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