• Wide Release
• Director: Tun Fei Mou (as T.F. Mous)
• Written by: Mei Liu, Wen Yuan Mou, Dun Jing Teng
• Running Time: 105 minutes
• Language: Cantonese
• MPAA Rating: UNRATED
• Cast: Hsu Gou, Tie Long Jin, Zhaohua Mei, Zhe Quan, Gang Wang, Runsheng Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Andrew Yu

Recent events in the news serve to remind us what a shitty sick fucked-up world we really live in. I mean what could possess people to commit such mass destruction and death. Must have been some government or religious involvement is my guess, but in any case, I'm sure there is more to come.
And in keeping with this spirit, I've picked to review one of the sickest flicks I've ever seen, MEN BEHIND THE SUN. I mean this flick is so fucked-up my girlfriend won't even let me play it while she is in the house (wait 'till she finds I now have the sequels).

'Schindlers List', forget about it. This movie makes that movie look like something from the Children's Televison Workshop. You want to see just how far goverments and armies unchecked can go in atrocities, this flick shows it all. Now if you are thinking, "cool, sick gory fun Guinea Pig stuff", you might just be in for a shock. This flick has a documentary feel to it and some of the most atrocious gore I've ever seen, but this shit really happened (and it is still happening and probably will happen in the future). That and the fact it has some real type footage, like a cat tossed in with about 1000 starving rats, gives it a very disturbing feel.


The story revolves around some boys in the Jappanese Military Youth Movement, who are sent to the Japanese 751 Squadron's experimental facility during WWII. At this facility they experiment with chemical and biological weapons as well as conduct some other fucked up experiments like live disection and testing (and surpassing)the limits of human endurance. They use a bunch of prisoners, mostly Chinese and Malay, which they call Muruta (meaning something like 'another log for the fire).


So what kind of serious fucked-up stuff am I gonna see if I watch this, you might ask?

Well, some of the highlights include:
-the aformentioned cat tossed to the hungry rats (as much as I hate cats, I hate rats more)
-peoples hands frozen solid then either smashed like glass, or rapidly thawed in hot water and the skin and muscle falling off.
-a dude in a decompression chamber pressurized until his intestines shoot out his ass
-a still alive autopsy
-a baby buried in the snow alive
-some good beatings



Hell if it is horrible, it is in this flick. This movie has gained an infamous cult status. It's banned in a few countries and there are numerous rumors surrounding some of the footage in this movie. It is said that the scene with the man being tossed into a decompression chamber used a real corpse. This however is not true. This effect was actually done with two different actors, but real animal intestines were used and a guy actually blew them up with his mouth. It is also said that real autopsy footage was used in the scene of the dissection of the boy. This is in fact true. In an interview with T.F. Mous, the director, he describes how they gained permission to shoot the autopsy of an actual boy. It is also said that the cat tossed in with the plaque-ridden rats and eaten was real. This one I cannot confirm or deny. In the same interview mentioned above, T.F. Mous goes out of his way to skirt the topic. Having seen it myself, it is certainly a real cat and the rats look real enough, but I seriously doubt they were plague-ridden. It didn't quit strike me as real though. There was a lot of action, but the rats didn't seem to be going out of their way to attack the cat and something about the blood and wounds didn't quite grab me as real, but then I've never seen a cat attacked by rats before for real, so who am I to say. Ironically, it is usually this cat scene that causes all the hub-bub. Who cares that hundreds, even thousands of human beings were tortured for medical experiments? But if you kill a cat, now that's just evil-incarnate. And besides they burn the rats after, and that was definately real!


I doubt you will ever find it at a Blockbuster (but it might be fun to stick a copy on the shelf). I have aquired two VHS versions of it over the years, one dubbed to English and one subtitled (which I got from GOREHOUND VIDEO). And now it's available on DVD in various versions and you can even get one at AMAZON.

So give it a watch if you want something a little disturbing to make you think, and who knows, with things the way they are, one day soon you may even get to live it for real.

Couldn't find a trailer but here is a clip: