Hei tai Yang 731 (1988)
Genre: Horror / War
Duration: 100 minuten
Alternative titles: Men behind the Sun / 黑太阳731
Country:
Hong-Kong
Directed by: Tun-Fei Mou
Stars: Hsu Gou and Gang Wang
IMDb score:
6,1 (8.441)
Releasedate: 1 December 1988
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Hei tai Yang 731 plot
The story about a Japanese concentration camp just before the end of the Second World War. In this camp, the Japanese conducted experiments on the Chinese to create a deadly virus.
Reviews & comments
brucecampbell
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- 3346 messages
- 7744 votes
A film that is clearly made to shock, which it succeeds very well, but that does not make it a good film. Some scenes are really crazy.
It's incomprehensible that all this actually happened!
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Bottleneck
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- 8233 messages
- 2123 votes
Shocking! Both the gore and the fact that these practices actually happened.
Unit 731 really existed, with these kinds of experiments (physical reactions to weapons and bacteria, and endurance tests), real people (like leader Shiro Ishii) and healthy (war) prisoners as victims. The film focuses on the real horrors in extreme war madness and indoctrination, so I see very little propaganda in it.
It's a rather flat recording with a thin story, a little background information and mediocre acting. There is therefore too little drama build-up to leave me really deeply bewildered, although the scene with the laughing boy is downright gruesome (not so much the autopsy/vivisection itself, but that it was used for it).
The infamous gore effects are quite realistic. I understood that the cat was staged, but I think the rats and the decompression corpse are different.
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Onslaught
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- 591 messages
- 1188 votes
Nice movie.
There are quite a few shocking scenes in this film. Furthermore, it is an interesting, but very gruesome story that took place at those locations. The production is well put together. The acting is not of a high standard, but certainly not disturbing.
3.0*
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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