7. Men Behind The Sun (1988)
A repellant vision of life in Unit 731 - a biological experiment centre run by the Japanese where Chinese and Soviet prisoners are subject to the most vile treatment at the hands of the medical staff. Even towards the end of the film, the Japanese soldiers begin to find it all too much. The plan behind the experimentation is to create a biological weapon to spread the bubonic plague to their enemies. Along the course of the film you get to see a young boy being autopsied, a man's bowels shooting out of his anus in a decompression chamber, a woman having the flesh sloughed off her arm, a cat being thrown to a bunch of ravenous rats. The film is a blisteringly angry one with total hatred and bitterness against the Japanese positively leaping off the screen. It is important for us to document the horrors that happened in World War Two even if they take historical liberties like Men Behind the Sun. The depiction of events give us a snapshot of the Chinese rancour towards Japan for atrocities it cannot forget. It makes for a total downer of a film which 99% of viewers would find repugnant.