Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Saw a rather disturbing movie the other day. Disturbing, because of the gruesome cinematography and because of the subject matter. It was a historical film directed by a Chinese director named T.F Mou and relives the atrocities carried out by the Japanese Imperial Army (Manchuko Unit 731) on its prisoners during the tail end of the Second World War. Gruesome human experiments using biological weapons with microbes like anthrax plague and many more were done. The efficacy of various bombs and poisons were conducted on live subjects. The ability to withstand extreme temperatures were tested. The subjects were Chinese, Russian and Korean prisoners.
The centre is led by a scientist named Shiro Ishii and it is unbelievable what men can actually do his fellow kind all in the name of national pride and war. I doubt that we are now wiser than we were before more than three quarter of a century ago. We are still doing the same thing this very moment - killing attendees of family wedding in a remote village some thousands of miles away using joystick of a computer to manoeuvre killer drones to launch cluster bombs; and is not child's game and is not the same as killing fictitious alien space ship in Star Trek!
When Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed, effectively putting an end to the 2nd Sino-Japanese War and World War 2, the Army left the laboratory destroying all proof of its existence. The unit was instrumental in the death of 3,000 prisoners in human experiments and 200, 000 Chinese in field tests.
The Japanese have neither admitted to such inhumane behaviour nor has it offered its apology.
This project is said more advanced and gruesome compared to the minuscule project carried out by their Germans allies in Auschwitz.
The Generals and scientists of this unit managed to escape to the motherland, escape War Tribunal trials and in fact is said to have made a pact with the Americans. Their expertise were used by the Americans in the Korean War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_s 731
The centre is led by a scientist named Shiro Ishii and it is unbelievable what men can actually do his fellow kind all in the name of national pride and war. I doubt that we are now wiser than we were before more than three quarter of a century ago. We are still doing the same thing this very moment - killing attendees of family wedding in a remote village some thousands of miles away using joystick of a computer to manoeuvre killer drones to launch cluster bombs; and is not child's game and is not the same as killing fictitious alien space ship in Star Trek!
When Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed, effectively putting an end to the 2nd Sino-Japanese War and World War 2, the Army left the laboratory destroying all proof of its existence. The unit was instrumental in the death of 3,000 prisoners in human experiments and 200, 000 Chinese in field tests.
The Japanese have neither admitted to such inhumane behaviour nor has it offered its apology.
This project is said more advanced and gruesome compared to the minuscule project carried out by their Germans allies in Auschwitz.
The Generals and scientists of this unit managed to escape to the motherland, escape War Tribunal trials and in fact is said to have made a pact with the Americans. Their expertise were used by the Americans in the Korean War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_s 731
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