Japanese Devils

  • 160'
  • Japan
  • 2001
14 veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army talk about their experiences in China, which most of the time means the crimes and/or atrocities they committed or were at least complicit in. Enomoto Masaya remembers the following episode: 'We came across a village full of women. We stripped them and made them lie down along the side of the road. After we raped them we stuffed petrol-soaked rags inside their vaginas and burned them. It was a message to the enemy, but it was also entertainment for us'. Or take Yuasa Ken who was involved in experiments on live Chinese prisoners as a member of unit 731; he describes how they murdered their human guinea pigs: 'When we finished with one, we injected oxygen into his blood to kill him, but it didn't work: He just puffed up in purple blotches. So we gave him an overdose of anaesthetic'.

Director
Matsui Minoru
Country of production
Japan
Year
2001
Festival Edition
IFFR 2010
Length
160'
Medium
16mm
Original title
Riben guizi
Language
Japanese
Producers
Matsui Minoru, Oguri Ken'ichi
Production Company
Director's System Company Ltd.
Sales
Director's System Company Ltd.
Screenplay
Matsui Minoru
Cinematography
Oguri Ken'ichi
Editor
Matsui Minoru
Sound Design
Oguri Ken'ichi
Music
Sato Ryosuke
Director
Matsui Minoru
Country of production
Japan
Year
2001
Festival Edition
IFFR 2010
Length
160'
Medium
16mm
Original title
Riben guizi
Language
Japanese
Producers
Matsui Minoru, Oguri Ken'ichi
Production Company
Director's System Company Ltd.
Sales
Director's System Company Ltd.
Screenplay
Matsui Minoru
Cinematography
Oguri Ken'ichi
Editor
Matsui Minoru
Sound Design
Oguri Ken'ichi
Music
Sato Ryosuke