Ooru naito rongu

Hopelessly bleak and nihilistic tale of 3 kids who after who witness a senseless, random murder & attempt to find three girls to go to a party to cheer them up. All of them end in heartache in one way or another. Ok, that synopsis doesn't sound like the movie is horror, but trust me it is. All the actors are believable. The violence is NOT over-the-top, but rather shown in a matter of fact way. The only part that wasn't that good was the ending, when they fade to black the first time, just press stop on your dvd player.

Where I saw it: own it on dvd

My Grade: B-

Extras: Trailers for Visitor Q, Blood, & Freeze Me

It seems that this film is mainly destined to teen audiences, because the leads are young adults. It is a social drama disguised in a horror film, that's my analysis; a vitriolic portrait of Japanese youth thru those grown up kids. It is not an European film, no matter the actors, it is sometimes totally f...up in the making of scenes, bloody, brutal, bitter and funny a few seconds later. Not for Western audiences anyway, except the die hard fans of Asian cinema and Japanese in particular. But it is not too long, only ninety minutes, and it makes things a lot easier for me. This is not a crime film, my real cup of tea concerning Rising Sun country films. It is bearable however, and it is also the first movie of a series. Without me though.

What starts off as a potentially disturbing movie gets caught up in itself and trips over its own feet. 3 kids are brought together after witnessing a senseless murder and form a pseudo friendship - Soon after, things slowly start to fall apart for each of them - throwing the entire movie into a disarray of confusion. Not as shocking as many claim it to be (in fact - I thought the horrible sequel to Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer left more of an impact than this Asian 'horror' movie) * out of ****

There might be hope for cult horror fans if Japan keeps making movies like "All Night Long." The tale of three high-school outcasts (the brainy geek, the aspiring pilot, and 'the guy with the car') who go after a savage gang of thugs after one of their girlfriends is raped and murdered is as lean and mean as classic revenge pics like "I Spit on Your Grave" and "House on the Edge of the Park." If the movie moves slow at times, it's with the good intention of developing the characters, which makes the violence of the last act more unsettling and personal.

6/10

You should really give this movie a chance. At first when I started viewing this film it looked really crappy and low quality at first. The shots and colors were really bad; you could clearly notice that it was made by amateurs. But as I sat there I got more and more into the story. After a while I was completely hooked. The story builds up in such a great way. You don't really know what's going on at first. But after a when you find out, you almost get obsessed with it. I enjoyed the movie a lot The main message in All Night long is about how cruel and full of s*** human beings can be, especially men. It has a very depressing theme. There are no happy endings here. The atmosphere in the movie was really a depraved and dark. The movie is very silent in most of the scenes. There is almost no music, mostly noises. So when the violent parts of the movie starts to kick in the music stops. This is a great dramatic effect which makes it seem so much brutal.

The first All Night Long movie is defiantly the nastiest one. It has a lot of brutality and gruesome rape in it. It is very hard to watch. Not for those with weak stomachs. In some way it reminded me of a rape-revenge movie.