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Men Behind the Sun

Name: Men Behind the Sun
Director: Mou Tun-Fei
Genre: War, History, Horror
Released: 1988-12-01
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Gang Wang, Wang Runshen, Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Mei Zhaohua

1988 · 1h 45m · War, History, Horror

IMDb 6.1

Skip it. 'Men Behind the Sun' is a brutally graphic historical horror film about Japanese Unit 731's atrocities, and while it has some notoriety for unflinching historical documentation, the 6.1 IMDb score reflects that the extreme violence often overwhelms any educational value. Unless you're specifically seeking out transgressive war cinema, there are better ways to spend your evening.

Plot

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Director: Mou Tun-Fei

Cast: Gang Wang, Wang Runshen, Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Mei Zhaohua

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