Widely considered one of the world's most controversial films, Men Behind the Sun presents a gruesome depiction of a Japanese death camp in WWII.
Speaking just for myself, after witnessing limbs being severed, electrocution, urine drinking, baby killing, live human vivi...( read more)
Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Zhaohua Mei
As World War II draws to a close, Japanese army officers are cooking up biological weapons to deploy as a last-ditch effort. They test their prototypes on Chinese and Russian war prisoners at an under...( read more
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Flixster Reviews (67)
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July 18, 2009
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March 14, 2008
Horrifying film about war atrocieties commited by the Japanese. Stomach churning moments abound along with an utter sense of doom. The director was very angry when he made this, and it shows. Could do without the real autopsy footage and the animal cruelty though.
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August 21, 2009
The Japanese army is experimenting with biological weapons during WWII in a concentration camp filled with Chinese people.
This movie is famous for three gore scenes. One is of a woman getting cold water dumped over her hands in the middle of winter for ten hours, another scene ...( read more) -
August 11, 2009
Much better than expected for what I thought would just be a gore flick.
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July 17, 2009
Realistic gore, not for the squeamish. Fucked up, intense, visceral, raw and disturbingly informative.
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May 6, 2009
This is the Cannibal Holocaust of the 80's Men Behind the Sun is FUCKED UP!
But what makes this even more fucked up is that it is based on true events. This one doesnt hold back on anything even little kids are fair game here. -
September 2, 2008
This movie is like Cannibal Holocust, except it has a score to settle and it's with the Japanese. I seriously and I mean it even though it was cruel and mean, but the scene with the rats, the flaming rats, that was awesome beyond words. It stunned me from out of my seat that is f...( read more)
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August 9, 2008
Similar to other so called "disturbing" films the sadistic gory parts were excellent, but the story was just plain boring and dragged on for too long. Still I thought the scene were a woman gets "iced" was quite original.
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