Tatsuo, a young misfit and rebel without a cause, drops out of school and gets a job as a tiler. A chance encounter leads to his involvement with the yakuza. When he attempts to leave, however, they will not allow it. Instead, he is ordered to start up a youth gang of his own. They begin small, with petty theft and extortion, progressing to assault and rape. One day, Tatsuo decides to kidnap a high school girl, whom the gang repeatedly tortures and rapes – in the house of the family of one of the boys – until her death many weeks later.In 1988, a 17-year-old girl was abducted for a period of about six weeks in Tokyo. After suffering hideous acts of rape and torture, her juvenile captors murdered her and abandoned her body – in an oil drum filled with concrete. The case inspired further controversy in the form of public debate about the sentencing and rehabilitation of underage offenders, and inevitably became fodder for several brutal exploitation films in Japan.Concrete 2004 Movie Download.
The first attempt to film the story was made in 1995 by Katsuya Matsumura, whose defiantly bleak series All Night Long (consisting of six films, stretching from 1992 to 2009) focused on similarly warped and sadistic adolescent criminals. This was followed by the equally unpleasant Juvenile Crime in 1997. Years later, first-time director Hiromu Nakamura’s Concrete (aka Schoolgirl in Cement) was met with protest and outrage even before its release, in 2004, for its sensationalization of a horrific criminal case that was obviously still fresh in the nation’s memory.Schoolgirl in Cement.
While it is a nasty, repellent film – as was the case that inspired it – there are significant attempts to give some context to the main perpetrator’s dangerous malaise, without siding with him. Several social factors are introduced early in the film: the broken home, bullying at school, limited prospects and pressure from his girlfriend to make the kind of money that will enable them to get married.