A really nasty 'atrocity' film from Hong Kong, looking at Japanese biological experiments on the Chinese during WW2 and the infamous Unit 731 in particular. It's a low budget film but quite expansive in tone, giving a good picture of the international backdrop to the events portrayed, but the emphasis is very much on the blood and gore taking place at the facility and even the characters come second to that. It's an ultra disturbing film, one of the most disturbing I've ever seen, up there with the likes of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST in terms of on-screen content; it doesn't help that some of the corpses shown were real and one moment of animal violence is particularly queasy. Sure, I get that the director wanted to tell the truth and make this as realistic as possible...but only strong stomachs need apply here.
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