Hong Kong Synopsis
黑太陽731
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Men Behind the Sun. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Sil-Metropole Organisation
The 1987–1989 Hong Kong Window
Men Behind the Sun holds position #38 of 55 Hong Kong films in the 1987–1989 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1980s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1980s in Hong Kong, 151 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Men Behind the Sun premiered alongside 18 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 18 other Hong Kong films in 1988.
The 261st Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Audience Engagement
177 audience reviews — more than 88% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 89th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Men Behind the Sun, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- concentration camp prisoner · 1
- torturing police · 1
- pacific war · 15
- japanese occupation of china · 14
- experiment · 13
- war crimes · 10
- mass murder · 8
- biological weapon · 7
- prisoner of war · 6
- japan · 454
- china · 127
- world war ii · 55
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #459 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (45th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Hong Kong War productions specifically: #10 of 13 (top 77%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Production Companies | Sil-Metropole Organisation |
| Runtime | 1h 45m |
| Release Date | December 1, 1988 |
| IMDb | tt0093170 |