How to watch the Unit 731 films in order
There are 4 Unit 731 films, about 6.4 hours in total. The first was released in 1988, the latest in 1995. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
A tetralogy of early Hong Kong exploitation films based around the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1
Men Behind the Sun (1988)
1 Dec 1988 · 105 min
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
- 2
Men Behind the Sun 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)
10 Jul 1992 · 96 min
In 1935, Japan's Unit 731 conducts inhumane experiments. A doctor tries to free prisoners, including his fiancée, from the camp while witnessing atrocities.
- 3
Men Behind the Sun 3: A Narrow Escape (1994)
23 Oct 1994 · 93 min
During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
- 4
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)
7 Jul 1995 · 91 min
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre depicts the brutal events behind the Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese army against the Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.