10 Gruelling Films You Should Attempt To Watch

6. Men Behind The Sun (1988) Oh what a joyful experience you will have upon watching this film! Those of you who have been initiated into Men Behind the Sun know that I am being wildly sarcastic. A recreation of true life events in Unit 731, a medical experimentation camp run by the Japanese in Manchuria during World War Two, Men Behind the Sun features some of the most gruelling atrocities committed on celluloid. And the worst thing about it is that everything has an air of verisimilitude - like the poor kid being autopsied alive. I have heard rumours that a real life body was supplied by the Chinese government and it wouldn't surprise me although I cannot verify it. The same things apply to the cat thrown to the heaving mass of rats. I have been told it is fake but it also looks very realistic. Too realistic for my liking. Other joys awaiting you in Men Behind the Sun include a man in a Decompression tank having his anus explode and a poor woman getting her arms frozen and then plunged into hot water - the skin just sloughs off leaving bones. The aim of the camp commander is to utilise biological weapons against the Allies - in particular to spread bubonic plague via fleas. To rehearse this they usually get some 'Maturas' (a derogatory name in the camp for Chinese POWs) and tie them up on crosses and let the bombs explode. This is hideous, especially when on one bomb preparation occasion, a prisoner gets free of his binds and liberates the other Chinese inmates tied to crosses and they make a run for it. The Japanese have a fun time running after them and slaughtering them. Besides all of the merriment I have described above, the film is ridiculously badly dubbed with American accents and features highly inappropriate music. An excoriating film that just screams total Chinese hatred of the Japanese, it is nevertheless one of those wartime atrocities, like My Lai, that needs to be catalogued for to remind us that the human race is comprised of a pack of villainous arseholes. Just know what you are getting into before you watch this film. The film spawned a franchise. None of which I have had the metaphorical balls to watch.