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Good Film for people who don't like cats and rats
I had read all the hype about this film. How shocking and disturbing it was. You have no idea what a disappointment this DVD was. Very boring. The few moments that show "gore or violence" are very weak, poorly shot, and the effects were cheap. You could see much more violent and disturbing things by randomly picking ANY horror film from the shelf at the video store. There is one slightly nauseating scene involving an autopsy of a supposed REAL corpse. Still I've seen worse footage of surgeries on the Discovery channel. the worst thing about this film is the footage of the REAL live cat fed to the room full of starving rats. This was out of place and totally unprofessional of the "film makers". And I use that term loosely. Later the same rats are set on fire. For real. Real entertainment here, folks. If you are interested in the true war crimes of Unit 731 go read a book. Gore hounds like myself will be severly dissapointed.

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great film, but where is it
Do not be fooled that Amazon will actually can get this dvd. My order has been on hold for over three months and I doubt that I can ever get it from them.
Meanwhile, this movie is a historical document of what the Japanese did to the Chinese during the wane of WW2. "Atrocity" does not begin to describe the brutality of this film. When you hear the rats squeal for the second time in this film, even the strongest stomachs should use the fast forward feature. Unless you REALLY hate cats and applaud deliberate animal cruelty, for which the director was blacklisted. The horrible thing about this movie is that these "medical experiments" concerning frostbite, plague injections, ceramic bomb tests, death by pressure chamber, and various murders involving babies stomped into the snow, ACTUALLY HAPPENED. The live vivesection is also a popcorn treat. (through research I learned that the little boy dissected alive was sold to the director by Chinese peasants who were tricked into thinking that they were supporting the revolution.
For the gore-mongers among you, even you must beware of severe nausea. Thank God that Ishi did not document the"Rape of Nanking" also perpetrated by the sick Japanese of that time. In Nanking, live babies were thrown into the air and caught on bayonnets, among other delightful sport. Have fun if you dare, but do not expect more than excuses from Amazon.

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Reprehensible, gory, overtly tasteless, and historical????
Men Behind the Sun is the mostly true account of the "Bacterial and Experimental Unit 731." It depicts in unflinching detail the depths to which Japan went in the name of science and imperialism during WWII. Hyperbaric chambers, live unanaesthitised autopsies, flesh debridement, forced immersion in liquid nitrogen: it's all the stuff of horror, but it really happened and to countless numbers of people. The historical accuracy of T.F. Mous' film is impeccable. Every experiment in the film is portrayed with the utmost realism and shouldn't be taken lighheartedly. What's really distressing is the fact that the "test subjects" weren't soldiers or insurgents, they were chinese civilians, refugees, and Japanese defectors. All were innocent! This isn't a film with a nice glossy veneer covering the genocide and human rights abuses that are inherent in warfare. It gives us a front row seat to humanity in its rawest form. Either you can handle the movie and the fact that it happened or you can't. You be the judge. Sidenote: The war crimes that were commited by 731 were never cited under the Geneva Convention so all the physicians, scientists, and military personnel who participated in the atrocities got off with no punishment due to dubitable evidence (its kind of ironic considering that the Japanese goverment has video footage of the experiments that hasn't been releasaed to the public and also photographs which were released only 6 years after the war ended, go figure.)