Director
Matsumura returns to the basics (ugly and unforgiving, anti-social behavior
of teenagers) for this installment of his ALL NIGHT LONG series.
For this one, Yuuki is the psychotic introvert. He's a brilliant student
who dropped out of school after being beaten to a pulp by neighborhood
bullies. Today, he lives shuttered-away in the dark basement of his mother's
house. She's a surgery nurse who seldom comes home from the clinic and
dad was a pharmacist who died and left a sizable chunk of money via an
insurance policy. Yuuki spends his days conducting grafting experiments
on mice and other animals. He is also infatuated with an Internet starlet
named Reika and often communicates through her website. One day, Yuuki
discovers Reika's physical address (from a shipping label he notices during
a webcam broadcast) and decides to visit her. Things don't go well for
Reika. She ends up brutally murdered and dismembered. Yuuki removes various
body parts and takes them home to keep in his refrigerator. Soon, Yuuki
misses the girl and decides to recreate her. He convinces a trashy harlot
to visit him and before long, she's chained to the bed and the victim
of very unusual body grafts (see upper left pic). The madness accelerates
when one of the school bullies breaks into Yuuki's house and attempts
to rob him.
Before
embarking on his ALL NIGHT LONG series, Katsuya Matsumura was a
respected, award-winning documentary filmmaker. After graduating from
college in 1985, he delivered a film on pollution in Japan's Doroku area
which won the grand prize at the Mainichi Film Festival in 1988. That
film financed ALL
NIGHT LONG (1992), a movie for which he won Best Director at the
prestigious Yokohama Film Festival. ALL
NIGHT LONG 2: ATROCITY was released in 1995, followed by ALL
NIGHT LONG 3 in 1996. The fourth installment came in 2002, ALL
NIGHT LONG 4: INITIAL O. Mr Matsumura experimented with other
horror themes in the years that followed, but he returned to his mantle
in 2010 when JU-ON
[Grudge] producer Takashi Shimizu financed a big-budget production
of ALL NIGHT LONG 6.
A Japanese
film with English subtitles; fullscreen format 4:3, uncut version (78
minutes), extras include theatrical trailers. DVD encoded for All Region
NTSC World Format.
Nudity/Graphic
Violence/Gore/Sexual Brutality/Rape/Torture/Drugs
For Mature Audiences Only
