Men Behind the Sun (1988)

Original title

黑太陽731

Directed by

Mou Tun-fei

Genre

horror film, exploitation film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

18

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 262 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about the Japanese army's Unit 731 during World War II. It shows the brutal human experiments they carried out on prisoners in the name of medical research.

disturbinggraphicbleakclinicalharrowingcoldhistoricalstark

What happens

Men Behind the Sun (Chinese: 黑太陽731, literally Black Sun: 731, is a 1988 Hong Kong historical fact-based horror film directed by T. F. Mou and written by Mei Liu, Wen Yuan Mou and Dun Jing Teng. It was the first film to be classified "level III" (equivalent to the US rating NC-17) in Hong Kong. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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