Junko (2017)
Genre : Crime
Runtime : 1H 18M
Director : Abhinav Thakur
Synopsis
Based on the murder of Junko Furuta. The film deals as much with the social factors that produced Furuta's four assailants as it does with Furuta's suffering at their hands.
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