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Writer:
Andrey Iskanov (writer)
Release Date:
8 July 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
God created heaven, man created hell
Plot:
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk... more | add synopsis
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Impressive and Disturbing....Very Disturbing more (12 total)
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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Canada:18+ (Quebec) | USA:Not Rated | Canada:R
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Narrations for film were recorded in Birmingham (Great Britain) and New Rochelle (USA). more
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Dead Before Born more
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I love Andrey Iskanov's other works such as Nails and Visions of Suffering and find Philosophy of a Knife along the same lines. While yes this movie is disturbing, graphic and based on real events I am amazed at the backlash the movie and Andrey have gotten.
Unlike other reviewers I knew what this movie was about going in. Yes there was a documentary aspect to it, part documentary and some historical footage which I thought helped connect the film as a whole, ramming it home even more that this was based on a true story. I am not sure what kind of movie others were expecting. Maybe they did not listen to the beginning interview or have not heard about Unit 731 before, or even seen Andrey's other works. I find the attack on actors and special effects ludicrous. How do you expect people to act in this scenario? Most of the special effects were very good in my opinion. There were some that could have been done better but that is the way it is and to me has no relevance to the movie as a whole. This movie was made in a certain style and is not your Hollywood pumped out generic horror crap or cookie cutter work. One reviewer even said it was a horrible movie because the actress had a Brazilian which apparently the character would not have at the time. Out of everything that is going on in that movie, the pain, cruelty, and deadening of humanity he focuses on that... I would go ahead and watch and listen to the quick interview at the beginning of the movie which answers all the questions other posters are missing. Yes it's not for everyone and for me its even hard to say I enjoyed it because it was very disturbing. My rant is over...