When is this blockbuster coming to the big screen? It’s got Emmy wrote all over it.
Well that should whip up the masses. Makes going to war easier if Bob in Huwei can be made to reflexively hate japanese people.
The Japanese paid the ultimate price for what they began in 1937, it is done. The CCCP is committing atrocities in many spheres at this very moment. Let's keep our eye on the ball.
I don’t know if the movie will mention it, but soon after the war ended General MacArthur granted immunity to all Unit 731 physicians and leaders in return for exclusive access to their “research”. So the monsters walked free.
Nice going, MacArthur.
Not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Surrender_and_immunity
This was just one of the things we avoided by dropping the atomic bomb. Japanese Biomedical Experimentation During the WW II Era, Sheldon H. Harris, PhD
About Unit 731
https://unit731.org/
Yes, this is the plan—to whip up animosity toward the Japanese. What happened in WW2 was horrendous—as horrible as the actions of the Nazis in Europe—but when comes the point when the sins of the great grandfathers are no longer visited upon the great grandsons? We —the United States have done that with Japan and Germany, but then again, our population did not suffer the personal ravages, except for those unfortunate enough to be POW or otherwise interned by Japan.
I have wondered these past few years as to when China would touch upon these very subjects. No doubt the Japanese will be treated as evil, buck toothed, comic book villians with a myopic squint...(much as we did in propaganda during the War)
China has every right to revisit the past—but to what end? As part of the campagin to absorb Tawain? To keep Japan’s nascent offensive military at bay?
Japan probably should revisit the past also and aonce again pologize for such atrocities humbly and then close the door on the subject.
Yes, this all happened—Japan was not a good guy then, but is now. Societies can change (ie slavery) I don’t agree with China’s actions because of timing and the ultimate goals, re: Tawain. But like I said, China has every right to open this can of sorrow and pain and expose its gross mistreatment during the war.
Isn’t Buddism wonderful.
No matter how bad they make it, the real thing was much worse.
I have family who lived through this atrocity, and the stories they tell are even worse.
“The Men Behind the Sun” covered this. Horrifying beyond words.
I have read about this. Gruesome.
I used to work with a man from China who was a young teen during the Japanese occupation of China and he HATED the Japanese.
Internet Movid DB lists the show as 731.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33028976/?ref_=mv_close
Apparently, it was released in the US.
Release
China News Service reel about the movie’s release.
Evil Unbound was released on 18 September 2025 in China, Australia and New Zealand and on September 19 in the United States and Canada.
The film’s English title Evil Unbound, emphasizes the unrestrained nature of the crimes committed.
This article discusses it’s LA premiere an notes it was supposed to be in 100 theaters across the country.
https://english.news.cn/northamerica/20250919/20511c9d28df48fa905f443f47508009/c.html
Box office
Evil Unbound broke records in China, with pre-sales exceeding 108 million yuan and over 269,000 screening on its first day, making it the highest single-day screening film in the film history of China.
However, due to poor critical reception, the film experienced a nearly 90% box office drop between its first and second weekend.
(How did they cover that part where the United States gave a pass to Ishii Shiro and the other psychopaths who ran this program, simply because we wanted the information that they had obtained on their human experiments?)
Where is the Chinese film about Mao’s murder of millions of Chinese?
So, now we have the blacks and browns mad at whites, Chinese mad at Japanese, muslims hating Christians, everybody else hating Jews, etc, etc. Who is behind all this deliberate instability?
Before the Korean War my Dad was with the intelligence unit in Japan that investigated Japanese War crimes. During the war he investigated Korean War Crimes.
According to my mother, he left the US as a normal, kind of cocky infantry guy with jump wings. By the time she joined him in Japan a couple years later, he had changed into a subdued guy who treated everyone with kindness.
He was not a fan or Japan or Korea. 35 years later he had a Korean family move n next door in his suburban neighborhood. Imagine my surprise when this middle aged postal worker was found in the backyard speaking Korean to the grandmother who was visiting.
I said, “I thought you didn’t like Koreans.” He said, “I asked her a few questions. She is one of the good ones.”
He still never had much good to say about Asians in general. There is no hate like an old hate, I guess.
What’s inexplicable about Japanese behavior with POWs in WWII is the contrast with their behavior toward POWs in WWI and Russo-Japanese War. Granted in WWI (on the Allied side!) the numbers were small. They only captured 4700 from the German colony of Tsingtao. (Yes think of the beer!). In the Russo-Japanese War they captured 70000 Russians. In both cases the Japanese were cited by the Western press as exemplars of proper POW care.