Men Behind The Sun 4 (1995)

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AKA: Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, Hei tai yang: Nan Jing da tu sha
Year: 1995
Directed by: Tun Fei Mou
Starring: Liang Zhang
Country: Hong Kong, Asian Cinema
Language: Cantonese (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 01:30:41
Genres: Military, Based on a True Story, Gore-Gruesome, Fascism, Old-Young, Violence against Men, Rape-Sexual-Violence against Women, Medical

Plot – Spoilers:
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre is the final movie in the Men Behind The Sun series and is quite a worthy finale in its brutality.

Unlike the previous three that focused on Unit 731’s human experiments in germ warfare, this one narrates the capture of Nanking by the Japanese Army and the brutalities inflicted on the civilian Chinese population.

While there are no central characters, it does vaguely follow a representative Chinese family and a few Japanese officers. It also focuses interestingly on victors in war. While the earlier movies in the series revolved around the single common goal of achieving victory, here we get a different view.

When victory has been achieved, the focus shifts to competition among officers, squabbles over ideologies that must be imposed on the populace, debates on the quality of different samurai swords based on their efficacy in achieving kills, and inevitably – how to indulge our base instincts when anything and everything goes.

Men Behind The Sun 4 has black & white inserts of documentary footage in between the massacre, rape and pillage. There are also several effed up scenes including a domino-effect mass cremation of thousands of dead and injured Chinese by a lake, a pregnant woman attacked with a bayonet and the unborn child speared and a couple of nasty encounters with infants and children.

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KAN
KAN
July 26, 2023 8:16 pm

According to The Nanking Massacre on Wikipedia a lot of the atrocities were far too horrendous to be included in any film. Like Nazis and their treatment of the Jews it seems sadly that there is no limit to the amount of sadistic depravity the human race will sink to under the right circumstances.

renderm
renderm
July 10, 2023 6:41 pm

really? satan? human believe?

Emil Atik
Emil Atik
Reply to  renderm
July 15, 2023 4:43 am

Huh?What do exactly mean there??… This was sure unimaginably and unthinkably Satan-like/devil-like/hell-like and inhumane,if that’s what you mean by that and the a-bombs would be dwarfed by this,too,but still poor Japanese criticism also victims of their super fascist imperial ego-leaders reminding slightly of the period during the cultural revolution, – ironically – and even lesser than slightly of how Xi and his tailored and oh-so-devoted ultranationalist elite comrades (also iroically) is treating the Uighur people and the non-pro-Beijing Hong Kongnese democrats (and,calling them by unfair and one-sided labels to justify their authoritarian actions) and keep threating to Taiwan to his knowledge how that would lead of consequences, like the non-ideal-democratic, but still victimized-invaded and slightly free (than the invading one..obvi..) Ukraine and the fascist ego-value political (not as the era of Franco,Mussonlini,Stalin,Pol Pot,Nazi and NOT all as the imperial Japenese kind of level of course,though..but,still) Putin-Russia.How pitiful is that.What have we exactly learned since then..Absolutely nothing…Hmm?.. Well, slightly, when it comes to a holistic global perspective or amount of countries and their regimes and their constitution and how structured they’re.. Other than that about what we have learned from it since then is.. …Well,to not be controlled and manipulated by imperialistic, hegemonic and ultranationalist visionary pseudo-ideal concept(s) with full of BS-excuses behind a façade (sometimes a solid one and sometimes and not so solid one) AND that the totally NOWADAYS non-imperial-like (in EVERY obvious ways..way more anti-imperial,non-ultranationalist,non-authoritarian or anti-fascist than the current Xi-regime is politically and mentally structured. Even the… Read more »

Jean
Jean
March 10, 2023 5:23 pm

Very powerfull, great directing, I didn’t expect that !

OJ not Simpson
OJ not Simpson
March 16, 2022 1:49 am

Who cares if bunch of ugly ass people have died. What really important is the safety of white chicks in eastern europe.

Jackson
Jackson
Reply to  OJ not Simpson
October 12, 2022 2:58 am

Sounds like incel talk

NFTGA
NFTGA
Reply to  OJ not Simpson
July 29, 2023 1:39 pm

holy shit shut the fuck up.

bigmanknowledge
bigmanknowledge
February 22, 2021 7:49 pm

H.Tojo, in reply to your comment – I am not sure if you are Japanese but if so, this is just your bias and shame of the country past you have. What happened in Unit 731, with hard evidence no doubt shows Japans ruthlessness towards any other nation (primarily China though). The events occurring here, after the hard evidence shown of the brutality of U731, are very believable actions by the Imperial Japanese at this time. There is also hard photo evidence of the events that occured in Nanking at the time, so you are just heavily misinformed. For anyone reading this, this film and the first MBTS movie depicts historically true events, maybe not 100% in line, but very very close.

There is a reason that the 2 only atomic bombs to ever been used in warfare in all of mankind were to Japan, mfers acted out of serious line & got put in they place. They committed some atrocities back then, along with MANY MANY other countries and cultures.

H.Tojo
H.Tojo
December 7, 2020 11:57 am

Based on a true story? so so very loosely. Yeah, Japan invaded Nanking, that’s as accurate as it gets. Purely Chinese propaganda.

L.Pavlichenko
L.Pavlichenko
Reply to  H.Tojo
February 28, 2021 4:24 am

lol fuck you fascist scum

Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele
Reply to  L.Pavlichenko
February 28, 2021 11:28 pm

Gonna cry, asian spy?

Nobody
Nobody
October 18, 2020 10:07 pm

This is Mandarin not Cantonese. It’s even spoken with a Beijing accent which makes me think this movie was made with funding from Mainland China.

Jackson Crim
Jackson Crim
March 19, 2019 1:06 am

Honestly, I think this is the best in the one series. Not only is the gore incredible but the fact that’s its so historically accurate makes it very difficult to enjoy scenes knowing that this shit happened.

T.Schuster
T.Schuster
Reply to  Jackson Crim
September 29, 2020 9:27 pm

Ye-ah, rinse and repeat in 2020+.