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5.6/10   277 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Andrey Iskanov (writer)
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Release Date:
8 July 2008 (USA) more
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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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Awful, awful, waste of time "documentary." more (13 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
249 min (Unrated Director's Cut)
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Work on film has occupied four years. more
Soundtrack:
Dead Before Born more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Awful, awful, waste of time "documentary.", 8 October 2009
1/10
Author: Mike Chambers from St. Louis, MO, USA

Pretty terrible film. 4 hours, wow. I had to stop it 45 minutes in, but from what I saw, this work is amateur at best. This isn't even a documentary really. It's a bunch of horribly-filmed fake footage spliced together with the worst sound effects of all time.

If you want to see a documentary of Unit 731, don't watch this film. There are much much better videos out there that serve that purpose. This film isn't even good for the "shock" aspect either, it's laughably fake and corny.

Amateur work, don't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Maybe if that pole has adhesive at the end, and it used to move the DVD into the trash can, then okay.

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