Men Behind the Sun

Man Behind the Sun

Release Date: March 1989

Rated: NR

Horror, Drama, History, War

Director: Tun Fei Mou

Ok.....I think I need therapy after watching this film. This film is hard to sit through. If you thought "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom", "Cannibal Holocaust", "A Serbian Film", "Human Centipede", and "Martyrs" was disturbing, "Men Behind the Sun" will truly fuck with your mind. Pardon my French. I don't know how I survive through some of these films. My mind must be that much demented. {Runs to the phone to dial therapist}.

Let's take a journey into history so we can get the basis of this film, shall we? Unit 731 was also called the Asian Auschwitz. It was a top secret biological and secret chemical weapons facility. The Japanese took the Chinese, Korean, South East Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Allied POWs as prisoners and subjected them to lethal human experimentation. This unit is "thought to have been responsible for the deaths of up to 200,000 civilians and military personnel". (Environmental Graffiti).

"Men Behind the Sun" takes us on an inside look of the horrors that went on in Unit 731. The prisoners of the Japanese endured horrors you never thought possible. This film takes torture to a level that becomes very uncomfortable and unsettling. The hardest fact to cope with - even harder than the terrors that go on - is that this film is based on true events and is what went on in Unit 731. 

Human torture at it's finest. You see sights inside such movies of this caliber. "The Human Centipede", where we're witnessing Dr. Heiter's inhumane experiment. "A Serbian Film", where we are taken into the world of snuff porn. "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom", where we witness the cruelty of young innocent teenagers by unforgiving Fascists. "Martrys", where we see the unsympathetic brutality of an innocent young  woman. "Cannibal Holocaust", where we are taken into the Amazon and witness unspeakable events.

None of these films align with the horrors you will witness in "Men Behind the Sun. Even the controversial "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is taken from number 1 on my "Most Disturbing Films" list and moved down the list to make room for this film.

Despite it's trembling terrors, "Men Behind the Sun" is a must-watch for all mature audience. At least once. As depraving as it is, it is also a journey through time, and a history lesson for those that don't know the history of Unit 731 and the Japanese during World War II.

Check it out when you can.

Peace.

Sources

IMDb. "Man Behind the Sun". Web. 2013.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093170/

Environmental Graffiti. "Unit 731: The Horrors of the Asian Auschwitz". Web. 2013.

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-unit-731

Mytholyke. "Unit 731 One of the Most Terrifying Secrets of the 20th Century". Web. 2013.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~kann20c/classweb/dw2/page1.html

Flowers of Flesh and Blood. "5 Films Which Genuinely Disturbed Me". Web. 2013.

http://flowersoffleshandblood.horror-extreme.com/?p=471

Horrorpedia. "Men Behind the Sun". Web. 2013.

http://horrorpedia.com/2012/12/24/men-behind-the-sun/