This month, Kris and Donna test their might with a double feature pitting T.F Mou’s “Men Behind The Sun” (1988) against Andrey Iskanov’s “Philosophy of a Knife” (2008), two films which take very different approaches to depicting the horrors inflicted by Imperial Japan’s Unit 731.

CONTENT WARNINGS: World War II, Racism, War Crimes, Forced Captivity, Forced Drugging, Cruel & Inhumane Treatment, Torture/Mutilation, Dismemberment, Experimental Surgery, Needles, Electrocution, Child/Infant Abuse/Death, Child Nudity (MBTS), Implied Pedophilia (MBTS), Animal Abuse/Death (Rats, Cats) (MBTS), Actual Cadavers, Autopsy Footage (MBTS), Prison Exploitation (Philosophy), Sexual Abuse, Assault (Philosophy), Pregnancy (Philosophy), Forced Abortion (Philosophy), Suicide (Philosophy)

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch “Men Behind the Sun”: Youtube

Watch “Philosophy of a Knife”: Youtube, Prime

“Unit 731,” Wikipedia.

“Second Sino-Japanese War,” Wikipedia.

Harris, S.H. (2002). Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–1945, and the American Cover-up. Routledge.

Kristof, Nicholar D. (17 March 1995). "Unmasking Horror – A special report. Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity". New York Times.

“Man Behind the Sun (1988),” IMDB.

“Men Behind the Sun,” Wikipedia.

“Mou Tun-fei,” Wikipedia.

“The Awful Truth Of MEN BEHIND THE SUN,” Jess Hicks, Birth Movies Death, December 20 2016.

“T.F. Mous : The Man Behind the Sun, part 1,” Donato Totaro, Off Screen, January 1999.

“Philosophy of a Knife (Video 2008),” IMDB.

“Philosophy of a Knife,” Wikipedia.

 "Andrey Iskanov". Philosophy of a Knife. The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre. Retrieved November 15, 2012.

"Foreign Objects: Philosophy of a Knife". Film School Rejects. 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2019-05-09.

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