Ooru naito rongu 3 saishû-shô

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!

The third film in Katsuya Matsumura's All Night Long series (originally a trilogy, but currently standing at six films) is disturbing, even more so than the director's previous two ANL movies, which goes to make it the most 'successful' of the original trilogy. If, like me, you felt that parts one and two weren't quite grim enough, this tale of utter moral turpitude should definitely do the trick.

Yûjin Kitagawa stars as loner high-school student Kikuo Sawada, whose job cleaning rooms in a love hotel allows him access to all sorts of goodies: pubic hairs, used condoms, dirty tissues etc. Kikuo's interest in yucky detritus becomes an obsession when he discovers the trash of pretty grocery worker Hitomi Nomura (Ryôka Yuzuki). Rummaging through her waste, he finds such treasures as dirty panty liners, old stockings, a used toothbrush, half-eaten food, and personal documents, which he takes home to create a shrine to the young woman.

One night, while diving into Hitomi's rubbish on the sidewalk, Kikuo is approached by fellow 'dust hunter' Kawasaki (Tomoroh Taguchi of the Tetsuo trilogy), who takes the lad home to show him his own collection, all neatly catalogued and filed.

As Kikuo continues with his hobby, he becomes more and more divorced from reality, viewing people as little more than garbage. So when he discovers a schoolgirl unconscious at the local dump, the girl having been raped, urinated on, and bludgeoned by his co-workers at the hotel, he takes her to his home and treats her like just like one of his pieces of refuse, prodding and examining her and cataloguing her details. When the girl finally recovers enough to object, calling him trash, he strangles her. With no further use for her, he saws up her body in the bath and takes her back to the dump. While Kikuo is digging a hole, Kawasaki shows up with some helpful advice for getting rid of bodies, directing the young man to a nearby furnace. Not wishing to leave things to chance, Kikuo kills Kawasaki with a shovel and throws his body into the fire as well.

Kikuo descends even further into madness (yes, even further) when he spots Hitomi entering the love hotel with a man. Spying through an air vent, he sees Hitomi having sex, and his idealistic impression of the woman is destroyed; after pulling down his shrine, he arms himself with a gun (found in a drawer at Kawasaki's home), and goes on a bloody rampage. The film ends with Kikuo taking Hitomi back to his home, just another piece of rubbish to be catalogued (and we know what happened to the last girl he treated that way!).

Director Matsumura doesn't shy away from showing acts of extreme violence, rape, degradation, humiliation and general deviancy in detail (especially the despicable treatment of the throwaway character of a mascochistic girl with scarred legs). However, it is the film's relentlessly nihilistic tone, and its extremely pessimistic message that humans are nothing more than living garbage, that go to make this a particularly challenging watch. There is not a single ray of light or positivity in the whole film, making it an essential watch for fans of transgressive cinema.

The 3rd installment of the now "infamous" ALL NIGHT LONG trilogy, THE FINAL CHAPTER, is also a very decent film. Part 1 of the series was kinda slow and not too "shocking", but ATROCITY (part 2) and THE FINAL CHAPTER really stepped things up a notch. Although THE FINAL CHAPTER may not be quite as bloody as ATROCITY, this one is far more psychologically whacked-out, and really extends the idea of alienation and social outcast-ism to the highest level. A semi-retarded kid that works in a "by-the-hour" hotel becomes obsessed with a cute grocery store worker. He begins digging in her trash and decorating his room with her discarded personal items, including her used tampons and maxi-pads. Needless to say this kid is a f**ked up freak. Like part 1 of the series, there are a few plot lines that are unnecessary, like the retarded girl that keeps getting abused by everyone for no apparent reason in the beginning of the film, then just disappears after the first 20 or so minutes...but even so, the gradual decline of this kid into utter insanity and obsession is interesting and powerful to watch. There are definitely some "rough" scenes, the rape, kidnap, torture and dismemberment of our main character's "surogate" obsessee is pretty hard-core. The ending is appropriately gory and distasteful - and extremely downbeat and hopeless. I feel that THE FINAL CHAPTER is the strongest in terms of being psychologically disturbing, but still has a few minor faults in the story-telling. ATROCITY (part 2) is sleaker and gorier, but not as "deep". I definitely like both of the sequels better than Part 1, but I can't honestly say which of the second 2 films I like better. Both are good and definitely worth checking out, especially if you've only seen Part 1 and walked away disappointed. Altogether, the ALL NIGHT LONG trilogy is pretty strong viewing and absolutely not for the casual movie-goer. Those of us out there that seek out extreme "shock-cinema" will be pleasantly surprised. Recommended 8.5/10

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!

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.