Thread: Philosophy of a Knife

It'd be a good idea to include some more info so we know what you're talking about.

Well - the movie's called "Philosophy of a Knife"

Originally Posted by IMDb

"The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov. Part documentary and part feature, the story is shown from the perspective of a young Japanese nurse who witnessed many of horrors, and a young Japanese officer who is torn between his sincere convictions that he is serving the greater purpose, and the deep sympathy he feels for an imprisoned Russian girl. His life is a living hell as he's compelled to carry out atrocious experiments on the other prisoners, using them as guinea pigs in this shocking tale of mankind's barbarity. "Philosophy of a Knife" is truly one of the most violent, brutal and harrowing movies ever made"

But is it ACTUALLY the true history of the Japanese?
My grandfather fought in WW2 for China, and had had told me some stories, that prisoners that were caught were tortured, given frostbites, etc. but I never really knew where to believe him or not. Not that he was a person that lied, just that I can't believe anyone would do such inhumane things.

Oh I think I've heard about this film. I haven't seen it though nor do I intend to watch it any time soon, I don't particularly enjoy these kind of movies.

Yeah i believe some of the experiments are true, likes seeing how much pain a person can take, or leaving a guy in the outside to freeze and later see if its possible to revive the parts that were frozen. Other experiments seemed pretty pointelss to me, like putting a cockroach in a girls vagina. There are a lot of sick people in this world, so it's not inhuman for them, it's just science.

I don't remember what the movie is called (believe it was a documentary) going over the many medical experiments that went on all over the world during WW2. It mentioned how even though it was very terrible, and that lots of people were terribly 'tortured' and/or killed, that it ended up teaching us a lot. A few things in particular that were brought up in the film as being "helpful" were the experiments involving dropping the human body to extremely low temperatures and then learning the most effective ways to bring people out of hypothermia or similar states. Effective ways of treating mild to severe frostbite with minimal tissue/nerve damage. Also, experiments involving drowning and treatment of chemical burns and gangrene.

Kind of a double edged sword. It was terrible at the time (and still is) but now it's in the past, and the medical community has benefited from these experiments.

Contrast that with MKULTRA, where we learned nothing. Except for the fact that you can make someone completely fucked up if you give them large doses of LSD and lock them in a room with one line of a song playing over and over again for weeks on end.

Yes, fucked up shit like this has happened a lot. I haven't seen this movie, but you better believe a lot of people can do such inhumane things.

Pavlov's Dogs for another example. Some is done for science.
Some is done for war.
Some is done for fun.
Some just coz we can.

Unit 731 was real if that's what you're asking, and they did perform medical experiments and biological warfare testing in China.

Unit 731 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During WW2, Japan was also notoriously harsh on POWs. They would starve them, march them to death, use them in forced labour and even use them as target practise.