Men Behind the Sun(1988)

Unit 731 was an Japanese covert medical experiment unit in WWII mainly focusing on biological weapons. They used prisoners as test subject. There experiments would range from being placed in to high pressure chambers until death to being starved from food and water to see how long a human could survive. Mou Tun Fei's film Men Behind the Sun shows you what happened in Unit 731 with out holding any thing back.

Men Behind the Sun tells the story from many different perspectives in the movie. It focuses on the youth squad of Unit 731, but it also shows the high ups and the prisoners. This film basically documents some of the experiments they did on the prisoners. It also shows what happens at the end of the war and how they had to destroy Unit 731 so that it would never be know what happened there.

This film is not for the faint heart. It has excellent effects, but there is an autopsy in the movie of a little Chinese boy that is not effects, its all real. There is also a cat being eaten alive by hundred's of rats, so if real and/or animal death disturb you stay away from this film. Men Behind the Sun is a very powerful film, I recommend it strongly. But keep in mind this all really happened.

Niku daruma (1998)

Niku darum also knows as Psycho: The Snuff Reels, also known as Tumbling Doll Of Flesh. There are many titles for this film but no matter what you decide to call it, we all can agree on one thing, this is an extremely brutal and sadistic film. Ignore the Japanese's pixelation around the crotch(of both male and female), and you are in a treat for a great pseudo-snuff film.

The film starts off as a normal porno shoot with a girl coming in and getting banged, your typically porno. After this they proceed to start doing a bondage scene, you think this is where things would go bad but no. At the end of the shoot they are all just hanging out and eating noodle(what a surprise) . When the girl tries to leave the house she is greeted with a baseball bat to the head and is instantly knocked out. She wakes up tied up to a bed with a bandage around the head, the men decide to reduce her to an "Tumbling Doll of Flesh".

Niku daruma can have its boring parts, the first half of the movie is just a porno with no blood or fun. One thing about the film that may bother some people is that the film is all in Japaneses and has no subtitles, but then again this film doest really need to be heard to understood what is going on. It is rare that you would find the original Japaneses VHS, so keep your eyes out of a cheap DVD-R bootleg of this to check it out.