Men Behind the Sun
Movie • 1988 • War
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The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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No, but fellow rodents, rats, are. The director set fire to them for the film.
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Crying baby is smothered in snow until it stops
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In the movie, both an cat and rats are abused. According to the director, the cat scene was done without harming the cat, but some think that he is lying since there was nothing to prove that the cat was okay. The rats however are confirmed to have been actually killed for the film.
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Does a cat die?
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The cat and the rats were actually killed, though the producers went back on this admission later.
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A large number of rats are actually killed, for real, on screen, by being burned to death. Skip this movie if you care about rats.
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The spider appears at 43:58. It's large, black, with a thick oval body and extremely thin legs. It moves quickly and runs out of sight by 44:02.
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There is also a scene where a spider crawls across the bodies.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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The infamous cat scene was reportedly done by covering the cat in red dyed honey which the rats licked off without injuring the cat, and the cat was given fish as a reward and returned back to his owner. Some think the director actually did kill the cat and he is lying in order to prevent more controversy around the film, but there is no proof that he has lied. Regardless, there is still real world animal abuse as the rats were actually set on fire.
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Various torture scenes
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A woman has her arms and fingers frozen in water and then the flesh stripped from the bone on camera.
A man's hands are subjected to liquid nitrogen and are subsequently smashed on camera.
A man's hands are subjected to liquid nitrogen and are subsequently smashed on camera.
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Does a kid die?
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There are multiple scenes of children being killed in various and upsetting ways, including both major and minor characters.
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Doctors vomits
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Prisoners are subject to blood draws and injections
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The whole movie takes place in a medical testing unit
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Suicide is mentioned multiple times towards the end though
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Includes multiple scenes of dissection and assault on camera as well as executions and medical experiments and blood draws.
A man is also stripped and put into a vacuum chamber and the pressure is decreased until his organs exit his body
A man is also stripped and put into a vacuum chamber and the pressure is decreased until his organs exit his body
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