Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues.
This is a film I easily can imagine being passed around as a bootleg in the 90's between gore and horror film aficionados. Men Behind the Sun (a.k.a. Camp 731) doesn't impress too much in terms of special effect quality but it's the thought of how accurate the events are depicted that's most sickening. The director did years of research and wanted to show exactly what kind of cruelties went on inside of Camp 731. Due to the fact that a special effect industry didn't exist when this film was made a lot of the gore had to be improvised in other ways, for example using real corpses (yes, seriously) and real body parts from recently deceased people. A certain controversial "cat scene" was also a primitive way of making it look like a cat is being eaten by hundreds of rats when it in fact was perfectly safe for the cat.
So, a lot of disturbing scenes that shows the inhumane experiments the Japanese carried out, and not a happy moment in sight. Though it's an impressive retelling of what happened in one of WW2's darkest moments.
Genre: Drama/History/Horror
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