Man Behind The Sun
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Man Behind The Sun (also called Black Sun 731 and Men Behind The Sun) is a 1987 film by T.F. Mous, about Unit 731.
The film details the various cruel medical experiments Japan's Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese civilian population at the tail-end of world war II. The experiments were in furtherance of Japan's aim to produce biological and chemical weapons with which to defeat the allies, and centered on a remote region in north-east China, a puppet-state known as Manchuria. The film itself contains little in the way of expository dialogue, what little information offered is in the form of narration.
The film is extremely controversial for its use of actual autopsy footage of a young boy and also for a scene in which a cat is thrown into a room to be eaten alive by hundreds of starved rats. There is some question as to the legality of the film, since there are laws against animal cruelty in many countries.