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Unit 731 and Nanking

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  • Man Behind the Sun (1988)

    1. Man Behind the Sun

    19881h 45mNot Rated
    6.1 (7.8K)
    Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
    DirectorTun-Fei MouStarsDai Yao WuGang WangYing Git Wong
  • Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)

    2. Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil

    19921h 36m
    4.4 (747)
    In 1935, Japan's Unit 731 conducts inhumane experiments. A doctor tries to free prisoners, including his fiancée, from the camp while witnessing atrocities. The film depicts the graphic events at the camp without censorship.
    DirectorGodfrey HoStarsYishou JiangYuen-Ching LeungXingqiang Li
  • Men Behind the Sun 3: A Narrow Escape (1994)

    3. Men Behind the Sun 3: A Narrow Escape

    19941h 33m
    3.5 (346)
    During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
    DirectorGodfrey HoStarsTe-Lo MaiAndrew YuGong Zhu
  • Men Behind the Sun 4 (1995)

    4. Men Behind the Sun 4

    19951h 31m
    6.2 (966)
    In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.
    DirectorTun-Fei MouStarsStephen Cecil ThomasLiang ZhangYung Pan
  • Cherez Gobi i Khingan (1981)

    5. Cherez Gobi i Khingan

    19812h 47mNot Rated
    7.3 (66)
    DirectorsVasili OrdynskyBadrahin SumhuStarsAndro KobaladzeCegmedijn TimurbatorLev Zolotukhin
  • In the Name of the Emperor (1998)

    6. In the Name of the Emperor

    199850m
    7.1 (32)
    A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped, tortured, and killed many of the inhabitants of that city. This is a matter-of-fact although polemical documentary, with many of the horrifyingly intense images taken from home movies made by an American missionary who was there.
    DirectorsChristine ChoyNancy TongStarsRobin BrentanoTed HannonMatthew Myers
  • Nanking (2007)

    7. Nanking

    20071h 28mR76Metascore
    7.7 (3.6K)
    Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
    DirectorsBill GuttentagDan SturmanStarsHugo ArmstrongRosalind ChaoStephen Dorff
  • Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)

    8. Don't Cry, Nanking

    19952h
    6.6 (283)
    In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
    DirectorZiniu WuStarsChin HanAi SaotomeRene Liu
  • Riben guizi (2001)

    9. Riben guizi

    20012h 40m
    7.5 (153)
    A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the infamous Unit 731 medical experimentation group. Having been trained by their country to be nothing but killers, the soldiers claim to have become morally numb and unable to see non-Japanese as even human. Perhaps feeling some remorse for what they have done, they now choose to tell their stories for the world to hear.
    DirectorMinoru MatsuiStarsYoshio TsuchiyaHakudo NagatomiYoshio Shinozuka
  • The Sea and Poison (1986)

    10. The Sea and Poison

    19862h 3m
    7.4 (358)
    Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.
    DirectorKei KumaiStarsEiji OkudaKen WatanabeTakahiro Tamura
  • John Rabe (2009)

    11. John Rabe

    20092h 14m57Metascore
    7.2 (6.9K)
    A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
    DirectorFlorian GallenbergerStarsUlrich TukurDaniel BrühlSteve Buscemi
  • Philosophy of a Knife (2008)

    12. Philosophy of a Knife

    20084h 26mNot RatedVideo
    4.4 (1.8K)
    A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.
    DirectorAndrey IskanovStarsTetsuro SakagamiTomoya OkamotoYukari Fujimoto
  • Horror in the East (2000)

    13. Horror in the East

    2000PGTV Movie
    7.7 (244)
    An examination of atrocities and depredations committed by Imperial Japanese military forces, from 1931 to 1945.
    StarsEdward HerrmannSamuel West
  • City of Life and Death (2009)

    14. City of Life and Death

    20092h 13mR85Metascore
    7.7 (12K)
    In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
    DirectorChuan LuStarsYe LiuWei FanHideo Nakaizumi
  • Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Jia Sun, Bai Xue, Xiting Han, Xinyi Zhang, and Yuemin Li in The Flowers of War (2011)

    15. The Flowers of War

    20112h 26mR46Metascore
    7.5 (57K)
    An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChristian BaleNi NiXinyi Zhang

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