黑太陽731 (1988)

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Men Behind the Sun is a 1988 Hong Kong historical horror film directed by Mou Tun-fei. It is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Empire of Japan at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was the first film to be classified "level III" in Hong Kong.

Production

While working on a children’s martial arts film called Young Heroes, Mou Tun-fei began to hear stories about war atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hearing about the biological experimentation on Chinese prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians spurred Mou to direct the project.

Shooting took place on-location in Harbin, often in the real locations where the film's events occurred. The People's Liberation Army lent military equipment and extras to the production.

The cast consisted mostly of amateurs and a handful of professional stage actors. Mou recalled, "the producer pleaded with me to have a big Hong Kong actor such as Chow Yun-fat and give the film an identity." He cast ethnic Koreans to play the children in the film, feeling they most closely resembled the Japanese and Chinese children of the 1930s.

Two sequences used real human cadavers: the frostbite experiment victim's arms (which were placed in front of the actresses real arms), and the autopsy of a young boy. The latter was the victim of an accident, whom Mou got permission from the parents to film the autopsy of for use in the film. However, the real cadaver was only used in wide shots, the close-ups were done with a pig.

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