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Men Behind the Sun

1988 · 105 min

A grim, unflinching descent into real-world atrocity that feels like a waking nightmare, leaving you shaken and sickened long after.

Tagline
Awful, bloody, sick and… true!
Overview
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.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • violence
  • death
  • guilt
  • morality
Places
  • military
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror9
Humour0
Realism8
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness10
Complexity6
Emotional weight10

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Details

Genres
war, history, horror
Directed by
Mou Tun-Fei
Written by
Wen Yuan Mou, Liu Mei, Dun Jing Teng
Starring
Gang Wang, Wang Runshen, Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Mei Zhaohua, Zhe Quan, Zhang Guowen, Wong Ying-Kit
Runtime
105 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese

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