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Andrey Iskanov (writer)
Release Date:
8 July 2008 (USA)
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God created heaven, man created hell
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The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk...
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Yukari Fujimoto | ... | The female nurse #1 |
| Yumiko Fujiwara | ... | The female nurse #2 |
| Svyatoslav Iliyasov | ... | The male nurse |
| Andrey Iskanov | ... | The amputation surgeon |
| Masaki Kitagava | ... | The female nurse #3 |
| Tatyana Kopeykina | ... | The blond girl with toy bear |
| Vladimir Kucherenko | ... | The radioactivity experiment man |
| Veronika Leonova | ... | The brunette girl |
| Victor Ludchenko | ... | The decompression experiment man |
| Manoush | ... | Japanese nurse (voice) |
| Reiko Niakawa | ... | The female nurse #4 |
| Irina Nikitina | ... | The pregnant girl |
| Tomoya Okamoto | ... | The officer #2 |
| Elena Probatova | ... | The favorite girl |
| Anatoly Protasov | ... | Himself |
| Tetsuro Sakagami | ... | The officer #1 |
| Artem Seleznyov | ... | The frostbite experiment man |
| Victor Silkin | ... | The old surgeon |
| Dmitriy Skripnik | ... | The captured airplane pilot |
| Alyona Strebkova | ... | The dental torture girl |
| Anna Subbotina | ... | The insect experiment girl |
| Stephen Tipton | ... | Historical commentary (voice) |
| Irina Zenkina | ... | The syphilis experiment girl |
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249 min (Unrated Director's Cut)
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The film contains about 13,000 special sound effects most part of which is never used twice.
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Dead Before Born
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As soon as I heard about this film I snagged a copy and watched it in all it's atrocious glory! I love Iskanov's work and I knew that he would do an incredible job with this subject.
I had seen other films about Unit 731 and had been unimpressed. They always seemed to come off campy or simply lacked the seriousness of the subject. Iskanov's film does the subject justice and then some (but the film is not overdone...all 4-1/2 hours of it).In fact Iskanov captures the true horror of it all by simply reducing it to what it is...torture. Iskanov, although known for his visual sensory overload (in a good way), shows the restraint and control of a world-class director.
There aren't a whole lot of films made about the atrocities of Japanese unit 731 and this one is not likely to be topped.
Watch this film with caution as it will change your life, if even just slightly.