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Unit 731 was a biological and chemical warfare research facility that performed hideous and lethal experiments on the Chinese during World War II. But thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, some of that history has become available to the public. The real Unit 731 has been shrouded in mystery for decades after most of the records regarding it had been destroyed at the end of the war. We will probably never really know what went down in the making of Men Behind the Sun but we do know that the actual story of Unit 731 is horrifying.
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Mous has said that the cat killed within the movie by a rat swarm was not actually killed but a blog post from China appeared in 2008 stating that the rats and cat were killed on set. In Australia the film was banned, in Japan, there was such a backlash that Mous received death threats, and there was numerous criticism for the animal abuse that takes place in the film. Mous didn’t intend to make an “exploitation” film, he wanted to create an educational piece to inform the world of what had been done to the Chinese by the Japanese. Of course, like other exploitation films, Men Behind the Sun became subject to major controversy across the world. What made this film worse than previous exploitation films is that it used footage from an actual autopsy of a young boy who had recently died.
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All of these experiments are shown in full throughout the film, there are no cutaways, no fades to black you just sit and watch it all unfold. Among these experiments are letting fleas infected with bubonic plague feast on prisoners, freezing a woman’s arms and then thawing them only to have both of her arms entirely de-gloved, and putting a man in a pressure chamber causing him to release his bowels and intestines.
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He focuses the story on Unit 731 and the grotesque experiments that were performed on Chinese captives by General Shiro Ishii. Mou set out to create a film depicting Japanese war crimes during World War II. Men Behind the Sun came out in 1988 well after the boom of exploitation cinema had come and gone. But Men Behind the Sun isn’t really your typical exploitation flick. I’d sat through countless hours of Naziploitation, breezed through Cannibal Holocaust, and ventured into more “high-brow” artsploitation like Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. By the time I’d gotten around to it I was already seasoned in my exploitation fare. So I tracked it down and watched it on my own. Years ago a friend (who would later become my husband) recommended I check out a Chinese film called Men Behind The Sun. In my many years as a fan of twisted and macabre cinema, I’ve come across a lot of films that most would never dream of watching.