is a

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film director and screenwriter known for his violent thriller-horror film series ''All Night Long''.

Life and career

Matsumura was born in

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, Japan in 1963. After graduating college, he entered the film industry where he worked on documentary films and short documentaries. His documentary on continued pollution in the Doroku area won the grand prize in the Short Film category at the

Mainichi Film Concours The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946. It is the first film festival in Japan. History The origins of the contest date back to 1935, ...

in 1988. He left documentary film making in 1991 and his first feature film '' All Night Long'' was released in 1992. The film earned him the Best New Director award at the 1993

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. He followed up his first feature with the 1995 horror film ''Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case'', based on a true crime, the 1988

murder of Junko Furuta was a Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured and then subsequently murdered. Her case was called the , due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers (Hiros ...

. Matsumura continued the "All Night Long" series with two more installments released directly to video in 1995 and 1996, followed by the 4th and 5th chapters later in 2002 and 2003, also on video. Matsumura returned to feature films with the 2004 horror movie ''Ki-re-i?'', based on the novel by Kei Yuikawa, which combines cosmetic surgery and gore, and in 2008, he directed ''Dark Love: Rape'', an erotic psycho-thriller from the

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series by Shūichi Sakabe. The film was produced and distributed by the

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(AV) studio

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and featured one of their former actresses Hitomi Hayasaka. In 2009, Matsumura brought out ''All Night Long 6'', produced by

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, famous for his '' Ju-on'' (''The Grudge'') films, and with special makeup effects by

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. The film was shown February 28, 2009 at the

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Filmography

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Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Matsumura, Katsuya Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters 1963 births Living people Writers from Tokyo