Men Behind the Sun
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| Directed by | T. F. Mou |
| Produced by | Fu Chi Hung Chu |
| Written by | Mei Liu Wen Yuan Mou Dun Jing Teng |
| Starring | Gang Wang Hsu Gou Tie Long Jin Zhao Hua Mei Zhe Quan Run Sheng Wang Dai Wao Yu Andrew Yu |
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| Distributed by | Grand Essex Enterprises |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong China |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese |
| Box office | HK$ 11,092,186 US$ 1,431,249 |
Men Behind the Sun (Chinese: 黑太阳731 / 黑太陽731; pinyin: hēi tài yáng 731, literally meaning "Black Sun: 731") is a 1988 Hong Kong–Chinese historical horror film directed by T. F. Mou.
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners towards the end of the war.
This is the first film to be rated "III" (equivalent to the US rating NC-17) in Hong Kong.
The film opens with the passage "Friendship is friendship; history is history." Mou said of the quote, "that's the argument [I had] with the [Chinese] government, because the government says 'no, we have a friendship with the Japanese', I said 'well, you can talk about your friendship, I am talking about history.'"
The film follows a group of Japanese boys who have been conscripted into the Youth Corps. They are assigned to the Kwantung Army, and are brought to one of the facilities serving Unit 731, which is headed by Shiro Ishii. Soon, they are introduced to the experiments going on at the facility, for which they feel revulsion. The purpose of the experiments is to find a highly contagious strain of bubonic plague, to be used as a last-ditch weapon against the Chinese population.
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