4.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds (1995)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.1
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film graphically depicts a real-life, extreme case of juvenile violence and murder, focusing on the brutality and psychological horror of the event. It does not explicitly promote a specific political ideology or offer partisan solutions to the societal issues it portrays, instead serving as a stark, observational account of human depravity.
This Japanese true-crime drama features a cast that reflects its cultural context, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally Western roles. The narrative centers on the crime and its societal implications within Japan, rather than explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on DEI themes as defined by the evaluation criteria.
Secondary
The film does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. Its focus is on the brutal events of the real-life murder case it depicts, with no elements related to queer identity present in the story.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is a dramatization of a real-life murder case. The historical genders of the victim and the perpetrators are well-documented and are consistently portrayed in this adaptation without any known instances of gender swapping.
This Japanese film is based on a real-life Japanese criminal case. The characters, based on the real individuals involved, are portrayed by Japanese actors, consistent with their historical and canonical race. No instances of a character established as one race being portrayed as a different race were identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
4.5
3.7
Critic Ratings
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