Ôru naito rongu 3 saishû-shô

Part 3, that's were it ends. I know there are other parts after this one but it stops right here. Again we have a sick and depraved movie. And as the other parts it starts slowly, just sit through that and you will have a provoking flick. It really tries to get the viewers. It starts of simply with a guy collecting rubbish and trash from a hotel he is working. And it is what he collects that some will find offending. Used sanitary napkins, pubic hair, used condoms...until one of the employees shows him a room were you can watch another room were people are having sex. Watching that and being obsessed with a girl it becomes unhealthy. From then on the gore is the main point. And as I said before, it's filthy and not for the squeamish. You hate it or you will love it, better watch the trilogy, sigh, all night long!

All Night Long 3 (1996) is the final film of the dark and depraved trilogy. Part three (like the second movie) was also shot on video giving the movie a gritty snuff video feel. This film summarizes the trilogy by referring to humans as garbage. The film maker's over all view of the world that we live in today is pretty grim. Ah, what a world we live in today.

A young and sleazy guy works in a sex hotel. He has to take customers up to their rooms. Working in this type of environment is not very helpful for a person's psyche, especially this clown who's only a few steps away from a total meltdown. One day he spots his perfect mate. There's one problem, she has no idea that he exists. But that doesn't stop him from following her all around town and rummaging through her garbage and eating her left overs. Soon he meets a man who looks like an older version of himself. He shows him all the tricks of the trade (he's a garbage digger himself). It's only a matter of time before the student becomes the master. Will the guy ever regain his sanity before it's too late? Can he meet the girl of his dreams without fumbling around in her refuse? Will he ever find true love? Who knows, you'll have to watch to find out!

A dark and twisted ending to the trilogy. I wasn't prepared for this type of film when I first saw them. I don't think anyone can sit through all of the films in one sitting. The realism the film maker used when making these films is quite shocking. What's scary about this movie is that there are people like the ones showcased in the trilogy floating around out there all around the world.

Recommended for fans of the genre.

Rated X and it definitely shows!

Katsuya Matsumura's "All Night Long 3" is pretty much on the same level with "All Night Long 2"(1995),and has the most pessimistic tone of the whole series as it suggests that humans are nothing but filth and rubbish.Kikuo is a Japanese boy who works in a sleazy hotel where men bring women for sex.One day he takes bag which contains a woman's personal items that she has thrown away.Becoming increasingly interested,he starts obsessively collecting her refuse."All Night Long 3" is by far the most extreme of the three films and the hardest to watch.The violence is extremely graphic in this part and comes sudden and shocking to hit the viewer numb.Some scenes like a brutal torture,murder and dismemberment of a young Japanese girl are truly sickening.All in all if you liked the first two "All Night Long" films give this one a look.Recommended!

The movie wasn't really as gory as All Night Long 2 but it did have a few nasty scenes in it anyway. The blood and gore isn't really the most disturbing part of the movie anyway. It's the rape scenes which seems most gruesome to me. If you haven't already heard about the All Night Long movies then you should know that it is defiantly not for those with weak hearts. It has a lot of rape and sadism in it which I guess that every movie in the All Night Long-series has. There is no music in these awful scenes either. This brings up the shock value in the movie and also gives the whole thing more of a realistic.

The atmosphere is very depressing and dark. Which all of the All Night Long movies are famous for. They try to show how crap some humans can be. And the moral is that all human beings are only living garbage.

Now the quality of the movie isn't really that good. The director probably didn't use a very good camera. And most of the scenes are shot really bad. But it actually makes the movie even more realistic and disturbing. So it all adds up. I actually enjoyed the story, even though it got a little bit stupid at the end. So, if you like underground Japan shock films or any of the other All Night Long flicks then this could be something for you.

Japanese film maker Katsuya Matsumura is responsible for this extreme trilogy, All Night Long, that is highly controversial in Japan (and elsewhere where it's known) and only the first film, All Night Long (1992), managed to get a theatrical release, the sequels, All Night Long 2: Atrocity (1994) and All Night Long 3: The Final Atrocity (1996), were denied a theatrical release and so they received only a video market distribution of some kind.

This third entry is a little different from the first two films and concentrates on a disturbed teenager who works on some kind of a sex hotel in which customers visit with their sex companions, spend a steamy night together and then leave the room filled with used condoms and other filth around the place. This protagonist works there with another male and a slightly elder female who all are not as balanced human beings as they could. He collects pubic hair from the sheets and practises other similar anti-social things. Soon the boy starts to get obsessed with a girl that lives near and he starts to collect her trash and leftover food and everything possible. He becomes obsessed with trash bags and collects them to his room, bathing in filth, literally and eating (the girl's) garbage and making nice collections of her sanitary towels and so on. It is easy to get the picture by now, and the film really is as outrageous in its imagery and hard to take (to say the least) as it sounds. Welcome to the origins of living, sorry filth, the truth about our very selves, but in a very extreme and merciless way without too much hope for a better world anymore.

The film is as horrible as just possible, without any signs of humanity or purity left. The first film had that one female character, the second film had also at least one (albeit a very unbalanced and disturbed one after strong sexual humiliation etc.), but this third film is practically completely without those elements of hope. There are only bad, selfish, mean spirited and evil characters here who only try to keep on living by satisfying their instincts for carnal pleasure, humiliation and violence, all of which are usually practised together. The imagery and scenes are so dirty and depressing it really requires an "experienced" non-mainstream cinema viewer to be able to handle it, I would say according to what I felt when watching this. That is also among the film's negative things as it would have needed, like part 2, at least one ray of light among its characters, but, like the previous film, these sequels work better if they are watched as if they were connected to the first film straightly.

This third film is also the "smallest" in the series, taking place in the mysterious apartment/dumping ground environment where the half dead characters scrape their precarious living. The second was slightly better as it had those images of real life atrocities and terror, but the "largest" is easily the first film which takes place in a familiar society with its schools and other elements found everywhere where humans live. Still part 3 has many scenes of products of industrialism (like military aeroplanes and so on) which Matsumura shows a lot so he definitely tries to achieve bigger waters with this film, too, which is of course good for the film.

There are some great lines that crystallize the themes of this series in each film, alongside the greatest power in Japanese cinema, the silence which is used (fortunately) in Matsumura's work, too. In part 2, a character says "if there wasn't sex, you people would be nothing" and that goes very well with part 3, too, as the film is set in the hotel of sexual desire and voyeurism. It is really the only thing these people have in their miserable lives as it is one of the primary instincts in our nature. Another great line comes from this part 3 which suggests that humans are born half dead, growing up until they finally become completely dead. Humans are living garbage, nothing else. Matsumura must be the most pessimistic and misanthropic film maker ever and that's why his honest, argumented and feared work is so great even with its few flaws.

Otherwise part 3 has one rather negative side and it is its slow pace and a lack of a "hook" at the beginning to really grab the attention of the viewer. Now the 82 NTSC minutes piece feels awfully too long especially as the first 45 minutes or so of the film is so calm and full of silent images. There would have been something to make it very interesting from the very beginning and also some cuts to the more unnecessary parts would have been welcome. Also the bullied school girl character remains a mystery: why can't she fight back and try to survive from the hell her school mates have created around her? I would also like to ask why the lead character becomes so obsessed with the filthy white trash bags in the first place, so the characters in this third All Night Long film are easily the weakest ones.

This is an expected ending to the disturbing trilogy. It has perhaps more shocking and graphic violence at some parts, but overall is equally nihilistic and horribly disturbing with the previous films, especially part 2. This is the kind of cinema that don't get made too often or in too many territories, Japan being usually the bravest one. All Night Long is probably the darkest film trilogy ever made anywhere, and it is great it has a rather talented and visionary maker behind it so that it achieves a lot more than an average exploitation director, with no ambition, from the same script would have achieved. Enter if you dare to see the harrowing truth and vision of ugliest kind. 5/10