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.

Audible Sharpness

This month, Donna and Kris get suited up for “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (1989), a Japanese film about a young salaryman getting bullied by a goth fetishist until they consummate their love and ride away into the sunset on a giant phallus.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Body Horror, Mutilation, Vehicular Manslaughter, Implied Sexual Assault, Genital Mutilation, Attempted Suicide, Animal Death, Misophonia

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch “Tetsuo: The Iron Man”: Prime, Youtube, Arrow, Google, Apple

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989),” IMDB.

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” Wikipedia.

“TSUKAMOTO: THE IRON MAN | The Creation of Tetsuo,” ZettaiJapan!, June 12 2020. 

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man and the dark side of transhumanism,” Sam Moore, Little White Lies, July 1 2019.

Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Surrey, England: FAB Press. ISBN 1-903254-36-1.

Noé, Amber (27 November 2019). "Capturing a World in a Crystal Ball: A Conversation with Kei Fujiwara". Mubi. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

Mes, Tom; Sharp, Jasper (2005). The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1880656892.

For their one-year podcast anniversary, Kris and Donna get on the grease with "The Greasy Strangler" (2016), a horror-comedy film about the complicated relationship between an aging son and his serial killer father.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Misophonia, Graphic Nudity/Sexual Situations, Neck Trauma, Eye Trauma, Cannibalism, Misogyny, Gaslighting; References to Scat/Scatophilia, Child Sexual Abuse

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch “The Greasy Strangler”: Prime, Vudu, Apple TV, Youtube

Watch “She A Go”: Youtube

“The Greasy Strangler,” IMDB.

“The Greasy Strangler,” Wikipedia.

“22 Things We Learned From ‘The Greasy Strangler’ Commentary,” Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects, April 12 2017.

“‘The Greasy Strangler’: The Story Behind 2016’s Most Disgusting Movie,” Charles Bramesco, Rolling Stone., October 7 2016.

“‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever,” Erik Piepenburg, The New York Times, October 7 2016.

“‘The Greasy Strangler’: Inside The Fearlessly Ridiculous Midnight Movie People Can't Stop Talking About,” Haleigh Foutch, Collider, October 8 2016.