Fans
of director Katsuya Matsumura's nihilistic sledge-hammer approach to
filmmaking know what to expect here. And he delivers it in spades. His
obsession with cruelty and the abnormal abuse which people inflict on
one another remain his central themes. And oddly, his movies somehow
transcend that darkness and become a stoic poetry. So it is with this
film. It's ugly, damaged, even irresponsible... but there is a somber
honesty that also slips through. For this film, a young woman named
Saeke moves from the countryside to Tokyo. She rents an apartment in
a "safe" building without knowing that the manager of the
leasing company, Mikshiba, has rigged all the units with multiple hidden
cameras. But he's not merely a voyeur but also a serial rapist who's
been assaulting and killing young women throughout the precinct. There
is a reason for his mania [albeit a twisted one] but the explanation
will not be revealed here. It's reserved only for people who watch the
film.
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 documentary 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 followed by ALL
NIGHT LONG 5: R. Mr Matsumura experimented with other horror
themes in the years that followed [KIREI:
TERROR OF BEAUTY and this critically acclaimed "Rape"
film] but he returned to his mantle in 2010 when producer Takashi Shimizu
financed a big-budget production of ALL
NIGHT LONG 6: ANYONE AT RANDOM.
A Japanese
film with English subtitles; widescreen format, uncut (80 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include theatrical
trailer.
Nudity/Rape/Graphic
Violence/Gore/Sexual Brutality
Recommended For Adult Audiences
