Men Behind the Sun
4 words: Men Behind the Sun…
My first response: ewwwwwwww,
Well you’ve all certainly heard of this film and its role in the forefront of Tokyo shock cinema (along with the likes of Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood) but for those of you who haven’t…
It’s basically an extremely savage depiction (on the verge of true snuff, but we’ll get to that later) of what went on during WW2 for Unit 731, a biological warfare facility. As a typical shock film its reputation preceded it and I went in with certain (yet unsure) expectations. I was expecting to get blasted with semi mondo yet enjoyably fake, cat food for guts material. I was wrong.
This film runs from extreme gore to extrem(er) gore scene. For example place a man in a giant pressure cooker… until well his intestines come out his ass. Other examples include a woman having the skin and flesh ripped from extremely frost bitten hands and a man having tonnes of human (plague infested) entrails dumped on him. The list goes on…
There is a weak storyline to the film which has some involvement with an Asian version of Hitler youth which are forced into these experiments in one way or another. The film reaches its gratuitous peak when one child is laid down for a ‘medical exam’ and is butchered for spare organs.
And now for the snuff part. This films notoriety doesn’t only derive from its sick nature but the fact its animal cruelty. In one part of the film a real live cat is killed my hundreds of starving rodent. This I didn’t like but what I really disliked was…
Remember the child who I mentioned in the previous paragraph, (he’s not it he?) yes he is. They used a real cadaver for that scene who matched the actor’s appearance. So yeah, this is incredibly sickening, watching a gruelling and REAL autopsy of a young child.
This movie is by no means enjoyable to watch. Some (the director - T.F Mous) claims that it is ‘educational’ but it really isn’t. We know that such atrocities occurred during the war but do we need them to be illustrated so grotesquely? This is a stomach churning exploitation film, nothing more nothing less.
http://www.japan-shock.com/menbehindthesun.html
My final response: ewwwwww, that actually happened *shudder*
My first response: ewwwwwwww,
Well you’ve all certainly heard of this film and its role in the forefront of Tokyo shock cinema (along with the likes of Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood) but for those of you who haven’t…
It’s basically an extremely savage depiction (on the verge of true snuff, but we’ll get to that later) of what went on during WW2 for Unit 731, a biological warfare facility. As a typical shock film its reputation preceded it and I went in with certain (yet unsure) expectations. I was expecting to get blasted with semi mondo yet enjoyably fake, cat food for guts material. I was wrong.
This film runs from extreme gore to extrem(er) gore scene. For example place a man in a giant pressure cooker… until well his intestines come out his ass. Other examples include a woman having the skin and flesh ripped from extremely frost bitten hands and a man having tonnes of human (plague infested) entrails dumped on him. The list goes on…
There is a weak storyline to the film which has some involvement with an Asian version of Hitler youth which are forced into these experiments in one way or another. The film reaches its gratuitous peak when one child is laid down for a ‘medical exam’ and is butchered for spare organs.
And now for the snuff part. This films notoriety doesn’t only derive from its sick nature but the fact its animal cruelty. In one part of the film a real live cat is killed my hundreds of starving rodent. This I didn’t like but what I really disliked was…
Remember the child who I mentioned in the previous paragraph, (he’s not it he?) yes he is. They used a real cadaver for that scene who matched the actor’s appearance. So yeah, this is incredibly sickening, watching a gruelling and REAL autopsy of a young child.
This movie is by no means enjoyable to watch. Some (the director - T.F Mous) claims that it is ‘educational’ but it really isn’t. We know that such atrocities occurred during the war but do we need them to be illustrated so grotesquely? This is a stomach churning exploitation film, nothing more nothing less.
http://www.japan-shock.com/menbehindthesun.html
My final response: ewwwwww, that actually happened *shudder*