Philosophy of a Knife – 2 (2008)

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Directed by: Andrey Iskanov
Starring:
Country: Russia
Language: Russian, English (English subtitles)
Runtime: 02:12:25
Genres: Based on a True Story, Bizarre-Surreal, Gore-Gruesome-Splatter, Military, Fascism, Violence against Men, Violence against Women, Torture, Medical

Plot – Spoilers:
The 2nd part of Philosophy of a Knife sees the inevitable ending to the blooming romance between the Japanese officer and the Russian captive. Other scenes here include:
Forced abortion.
Electrocution.
Tongue cutting.
Frostbite experiments.
A decompression chamber.
Lots of flesh and skin peeling.
Cutting own throat.

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Nome
Nome
April 23, 2026 1:07 pm

No clue who they paid to give dialogue in between the corny effects but it was mostly lies. Japan didn’t see a magical boom in medicine after the war compared to other advanced nations. I have never even heard that claim I have however heard people claim the research into the progression of gangreen typhoid and cholera was useful but it’s well established in that it’s unusable data and I’ll present you with why. Poor scientific standards: Many procedures from unit 731 had no controls and didn’t use the scientific method. These were merely a see what happens if we do this horrible thing kind of experiments. Kind of like a kid pulling the legs off a spider to see it shake and die. It doesn’t matter how many times you conduct this experiment. You know the result before the experiment even begins it will die you just essentially want to watch know long it will take and how much pain it undergoes. Meaning there was no real goal or point to any of it aside from observing and recording. On top of this there was virtually no way to know if any of the results produced from any of the said research produced realistic results because it could not be replicated. Meaning even this recorded data was useless. A lot of what people claim they “found” about disease, infection, or even frostbite was either already known or could have easily been discovered through ethical research. Meaning again pointless torture.… Read more »

Vera
Vera
March 15, 2025 9:12 pm

It was the best movie I have ever watched. It is brutally realistic. I feel the deep sorrow for the victims. Their lives gaves though a lot of knowledge and improved our lifes nowadays. I feel also sorry for those who condacted those experiments (of cours much less than I feel it against the offers). Those people are surely chosen to do this against their will. Im happy I don’t have to live in such times.
I also hope that some informations are not true- I hope that offers were treated with respect and with anestesia. We will never know it for sure. I want to believe that those experiments were conducted in a human way.

Slampig
Slampig
July 20, 2023 6:14 am

A lot of filler content. Skipped ahead a lot and finished both movies in around 2 1/2 hours. Just watch the Men behind the sun series if you’re interested

Steve
Steve
May 20, 2023 3:35 am

Lol this sucks

Michellp76
Michellp76
July 19, 2022 7:42 pm

Jesus Christ.

Alex Hogendorp
Alex Hogendorp
October 28, 2021 6:27 pm

Decent Movie. Had some serious flaws but had some insights too.

erik
erik
April 20, 2021 6:34 am

Does anyone have a concrete understanding why they removed her skin before the roach crawled out? Thanks.

Someone Soneone
Someone Soneone
April 7, 2020 12:07 am

I was more interested in the effects of the experiments….not so much of the drama….well done even though they didn’t have so much to go on.

Tom Roman
Tom Roman
April 4, 2020 5:51 am

I thought Men Behind the Sun was the better movie.

Still, the documentary side offered a lot of food for thought.

The ending especially brings into focus the interest of all countries in the test results the Japanese brought out of Manchuria just as the world hungered for the notes and results of Nazi Doctors and researchers from the death camps of eastern Europe.

In it’s gory, lurid, hatchet-in-hand approach, this film reminds us, we are all killers. We can all ignore the humanity of “others” and commit the most atrocious acts on them in the name of our country and god, but mostly, we do it because it is what humans do best, given the excuse. Kill.