Posted on 12/27/2025 8:58:40 AM PST by DFG
There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the Imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of civilians in occupied China.
As it sought to develop chemical and nuclear weapons, the unit subjected its mostly Chinese victims to a catalogue of horrors beyond the human imagination between 1936 to 1945, when the Empire of Japan surrendered.
Civilians were dissected alive without without anesthesia, infected with bubonic plague, typhus and cholera and used as human guinea-pigs for frost-bite treatments in spine-chilling torture laboratories.
A new Chinese film called 'Evil Unbound' has brought to life the unspeakable acts that occurred in the germ warfare prisons, where even pregnant women - raped by guards - were subjected to vivisections, and the dead were hastily disposed of in electric furnaces.
The ultra-violent movie, directed by Linshan Zhao, isn't just a deep-dive into old wounds, but has the potential to stoke anger in the present day due to its disturbing revelations about the crimes against humanity committed by the Japanese.
In fact, before its theatrical release in China on September 18, the Japanese embassy issued a security advisory cautioning Japanese nationals to be 'vigilant against anti-Japanese sentiment' due to films and events held in conjunction with World War Two's 80th anniversary.
Its debut was even abruptly postponed from its original July 31 date, sparking speculation in Japanese media that the delay may have been aimed at avoiding diplomatic tensions.
While the gory spectacles showcased throughout 'Evil Unbound' may seem excessive, in reality the film hardly touches the surface of what truly occurred in the notorious facilities.
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Unit 731 left no survivors… not a single one. There are no people with tattoos on their arms?
Buddhism might have taught them that such actions will come back to bite you with the power of two new rising suns.
There were 56 Chinese POWs who had been taken by the Japanese alive when they surrendered.
Frank. Let me be Frank with you. You do not know anything about what the Japanese did to all prisoners.
The Japanese did NOT pay the ultimate price in 1937. The United States had to bomb them twice before they understood. Your perception of history is quite distorted.
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.
That’s a movie not to watch. I sometimes think them Japs deserved what they got. They were depraved.
I don’t understand your propaganda assertion. There are photographs of some of these well documented atrocities.
I consider Sanae Takaichi, the current PM of Japan to be a very dangerous person. Stirring up Imperialistic/Nationalistic fervor among those who are not aware of their own history.
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*** Japan probably should revisit the past also and aonce again pologize for such atrocities humbly and then close the door on the subject. ***
Japan has never apologized from all I have read.
I stand by my statement.
Speaking of the Nanjing Massacre, thousands of Chinese civilians were saved due to the efforts of Nazi German diplomat John Rabe.
How’s that for an interesting twist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
(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?)
I have read about the Nanjing Safety Zone. IIRC, 200,000 saved by Rabe’s efforts.
What an interesting story; I have never heard this before.
I don't put much stock in Wikipedia but based on the dates, it appears that he had been in China before the Nazis took power in Germany; he may have joined the Nazi party simply for professional (and not, ideological) reasons.
The ultimate price would have been for the Allies to stand firm on the July 1945 Potsdam Declaration and, following Japan’s surrender, to tried, convict, and sentence the Japanese emperor for such war crimes.
It was General Douglas MacArthur who protected the Japanese emperor. He should have been court-martialed for that.
I came across John Rabe‘s story by accident. As I see it, his heroic efforts are on the same level as those of the more-famous Oskar Schindler.
And like Schindler, Rabe died in poverty.
As the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
In this life, anyway.
My study of history is accurate. They were utterly defeated, their country, economically and physically, completely destroyed, their militaristic government completely subdued, and their culture completely erased and changed. If you were in charge then what would have been the appropriate ‘ultimate’ price? The complete annihilation of Japan and the Japanese people?
Executing the Emperor would have led to the immediate shattering of the surrender and peace process. The Japanese would never have accepted such an action and it would have led to years more conflict and guerrilla warfare that would have made Vietnam look like a tea party. The United States did the right thing and the results are obvious today.
The Empire of Japan had nothing against the Jews. I mean they were obviously an inferior breed but would make fine servants.
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