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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: {{Played straight}} with the infamous scene of the cat being devoured by rats; it was red-dyed honey and the cat was rewarded with fish before being sent home to its owner.
** Averted with the rats themselves, [[spoiler:which were actually set on fire.]] No word either way on the gas chamber dove.
** Averted with the rats themselves, [[spoiler:which were actually set on fire.]] No word either way on the gas chamber dove.
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* {{Plaguemaster}}: Shiro Ishii ands his disciples are focused most on creating a bio-weapon that will ensure Japan's dominance in the world. To this end they kill thousands testing different viruses and end up creating the strain of Black Death that's sixty times stronger than the original.
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* {{Plaguemaster}}: Shiro Ishii ands and his disciples are focused most on creating a bio-weapon that will ensure Japan's dominance in the world. To this end they kill thousands testing different viruses and end up creating the strain of Black Death that's sixty times stronger than the original.
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* AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the entire film. In fact, this film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like ''Franchise/CareBears'' by comparison.
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* MotiveDecay: The scientists goals are ostensibly to weaponinze an improved form of the bubonic plague but, unless freezing people’s arms to peel their skin off or put people in pressure chambers somehow has a connection to the Plague, things quickly turn into torturing people ForScience.
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* MotiveDecay: The scientists goals are ostensibly to weaponinze an improved form of the bubonic plague but, unless freezing people’s arms to peel their skin off or put putting people in pressure chambers somehow has have a connection to the Plague, things quickly turn into torturing people ForScience.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: The image at the top comes from a scene at the end in which someone attacks Ishii and the other 731 leaders for their crimes. The attacker is stabbed with a flag pole. This unlikely weapon is used primarily so that we can see the Japanese flag soiled with blood.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: The image at the top comes from a One scene at the end in which someone attacks Ishii and the other 731 leaders for their crimes. The attacker is stabbed with a flag pole. This unlikely weapon is used primarily so that we can see the Japanese flag soiled with blood.
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* AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the entire film. In fact, this film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a ''Franchise/CareBears'' game by comparison.
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* AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the entire film. In fact, this film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a ''Franchise/CareBears'' game by comparison.
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* KickTheDog: Except it's not a dog, it's a cat. And it's not kicked, it's [[spoiler:eaten alive by rats.]] Also, the mute child is either kicked or [[ShootTheDog shot]], depending on one's view of the scientific value of the act.
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* KickTheDog: Except it's not a dog, it's a cat. And it's not kicked, it's [[spoiler:eaten alive by rats.]] Also, the mute child is either kicked or [[ShootTheDog shot]], depending on one's view of the scientific value of the act.Every single experiment.
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* MadScientist: The ultimate goal of Unit 731 and Ishii was to create a version of the Bubonic Plague that could turn the tide of the war.
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* MadScientist: The ultimate goal of Unit 731 and Ishii was to create a version of the Bubonic Plague that could turn the tide of the war. [[MotiveDecay Of course]] things quickly give away to just torturing people under the guise of research.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: And how.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: And how.Morally Ambiguous is putting it lightly since the scientists are all more or less glorified [[TortureTechnician Torture Technicians]].
* MotiveDecay: The scientists goals are ostensibly to weaponinze an improved form of the bubonic plague but, unless freezing people’s arms to peel their skin off or put people in pressure chambers somehow has a connection to the Plague, things quickly turn into torturing people ForScience.
* MotiveDecay: The scientists goals are ostensibly to weaponinze an improved form of the bubonic plague but, unless freezing people’s arms to peel their skin off or put people in pressure chambers somehow has a connection to the Plague, things quickly turn into torturing people ForScience.
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* TortureTechnician: The scientists are all this, just under the guise of research.
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* AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the entire film. In fact, this film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a Creator/{{Nintendo}} game by comparison.
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* AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the entire film. In fact, this film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a Creator/{{Nintendo}} ''Franchise/CareBears'' game by comparison.
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->''Friendship is friendship. History is history.''
-->--'''Opening text'''
-->--'''Opening text'''
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The movie draws parallels between the crimes of Unit 731 and the Holocaust using imagery of detainees arriving in cattle cars, inmates getting gassed and machine-gunned, and large, constantly burning crematoria. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since this takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, and Japan was a part of the Axis Powers.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The movie draws parallels between AtrocityMontage: Pretty much the crimes of Unit 731 and the Holocaust using imagery of detainees arriving in cattle cars, inmates getting gassed and machine-gunned, and large, constantly burning crematoria. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since entire film. In fact, this takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, and Japan was film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a part of the Axis Powers. Creator/{{Nintendo}} game by comparison.
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* AdultFear: The gas chamber experiment featuring [[spoiler: a mother begging for her child not to be harmed as they're both gassed to death.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: The gas chamber experiment featuring [[spoiler: a mother begging for her child not to be harmed as they're both gassed to death.]]
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: More like '''scenes'''. This film would arguably make ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' look like a Creator/{{Nintendo}} game.
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* GreatEscape: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] The ''marutas'' try several times to try and escape, to no avail. [[spoiler:One teenager fakes his death and dresses as a Japanese soldier is built up to be a SoleSurvivor, but he's discovered and killed.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: On several levels. [[spoiler:Ishii's bioweapons research is made moot since the war ends with Japan defeated before he can deploy his pathogens in force. The ''marutas'' are all killed off, the last one trying and failing to kill Ishii himself. The epilogue notes Ishii never faces prosecution for his crimes and gets to supervise the usage of bioweapons in the Korean War.]]
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* SequelDecay: The film was followed by several (unconnected but thematically similar) sequels, none of which were anywhere near as shocking as the original.
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* LifeDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:In the film's climax, a wife of one of the Unit's members goes into labor and gives birth while the last surviving ''maruta'' is being killed. Just to add emphasis on this point, the mother commits suicide via cyanide capsule after delivering her child.
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* LifeDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:In the film's climax, a wife of one of the Unit's members goes into labor and gives birth while the last surviving ''maruta'' is being killed. Just to add emphasis on this point, the mother commits suicide via cyanide capsule after delivering her child. ]]
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* TheDeadHaveNames: The film lists the name of every victim that's known to have one, standing in sharp contrast to Unit 731 calling all test subjects ''marutas'' (logs).
* DeadlyGas: One of Unit 731's specialties, alongside bio-weapons.
* DeadlyGas: One of Unit 731's specialties, alongside bio-weapons.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The movie draws parallels between the crimes of Unit 731 and the Holocaust using imagery of detainees arriving in cattle cars, inmates getting gassed and machine-gunned, and large, constantly burning crematoria. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since this takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, and Japan was a part of the Axis Powers.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Just to prove a point about the efficacy of his bio-weapons program, Ishii throws a live cat into a chamber full of rats and watches them kill each other, the rats overwhelming and devouring the cat after several minutes of struggling. A dove is also killed alongside a mother and child during a chemical weapons experiment and the Unit's lab rats are all set on fire at the end of the film.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Just to prove a point about the efficacy of his bio-weapons program, Ishii throws a live cat into a chamber full of rats and watches them kill each other, the rats overwhelming and devouring the cat after several minutes of struggling. A dove is also killed alongside a mother and child during a chemical weapons experiment and the Unit's lab rats are all set on fire at the end of the film.
* ChildSoldiers: The Youth Corps members serve as assistants to the brutal researchers and doctors, since much of Japan's manpower has been sent off to all the various fronts of World War Two.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The guy in the pressure chamber.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Far too many to count, but the guy in the pressure chamber.chamber is a standout example.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:After Japan is defeated, Ishii orders the prisoners gassed and the experiments destroyed. He then swears the rest of the unit to secrecy under pain of death. Ishii is captured by the Americans, and works for them, introducing biological weapons to Korea. While Ishii dies free, the rest of Unit 731 live lives of drudgery due to their education not being acknowledged by society.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:After Japan is defeated, Ishii orders the prisoners gassed and the experiments destroyed. He then swears the rest of the unit to secrecy under pain of death. Ishii is captured by the Americans, and works for them, introducing biological weapons to Korea.UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar. While Ishii dies free, the rest of Unit 731 live lives of drudgery due to their education not being acknowledged by society.]]
* DressingAsTheEnemy: [[spoiler:A survivor of Unit 731's atrocities attempts to don a Japanese soldier's uniform to escape. It fails, and he attempts to kill Ishii in his last moments.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:While Ishii is narrowly talked out of ordering the entire Unit to commit mass suicide, the wife of one of the soldiers does take her own life.]]
* DressingAsTheEnemy: [[spoiler:A survivor of Unit 731's atrocities attempts to don a Japanese soldier's uniform to escape. It fails, and he attempts to kill Ishii in his last moments.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:While Ishii is narrowly talked out of ordering the entire Unit to commit mass suicide, the wife of one of the soldiers does take her own life.]]
* EurekaMoment: In a particularly disturbing example, Ishii attempting to physically and sexually abuse a geisha causes a ceramic pot to break, leading him to realize that ceramic bombs could be used to distribute fleas carrying deadly pathogens.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:A lone survivor of the Unit's atrocities plays dead to avoid detection, until donning a disguise later. See DressingAsTheEnemy.]]
* FieryCoverUp: Quite literally; [[spoiler:Ishii orders all documents, building, and test subjects to be destroyed, and seriously contemplates ordering the entire Unit the commit suicide alongside their families to cover-up their crimes.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Despite chastising his subordinates for killing too many ''marutas'' since they're needed for bio-weapons testing, Ishii authorizes many pointlessly cruel experiments that seem to have been conceived purely as ways to kill and torture people in creative ways.
* FieryCoverUp: Quite literally; [[spoiler:Ishii orders all documents, building, and test subjects to be destroyed, and seriously contemplates ordering the entire Unit the commit suicide alongside their families to cover-up their crimes.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Despite chastising his subordinates for killing too many ''marutas'' since they're needed for bio-weapons testing, Ishii authorizes many pointlessly cruel experiments that seem to have been conceived purely as ways to kill and torture people in creative ways.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the beginning of the film, a mother's three month old baby is buried in the snow out of sheer sadism and gets left to die. Later on the mother becomes the subject of an experiment to show the effects of severe hypothermia.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Almost unbelievably, the actual crimes of Unit 731 were more gruesome and torturous than were actually presented in the film, and included actions such as rape, deliberately infecting people with syphilis, and testing flamethrowers on live test subjects. The field tests of Unit 731's bio-weapons, which killed up to half a million Chinese civilians, are also left out of the film.
* ItGetsEasier: The movie skates between this trope and ItNeverGetsAnyEasier. Sadistic, indifferent, or ultra-nationalistic doctors and guards have a much easier time coping with the horrors committed in Unit 731 than new arrivals.
* ItGetsEasier: The movie skates between this trope and ItNeverGetsAnyEasier. Sadistic, indifferent, or ultra-nationalistic doctors and guards have a much easier time coping with the horrors committed in Unit 731 than new arrivals.
* LifeDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler:In the film's climax, a wife of one of the Unit's members goes into labor and gives birth while the last surviving ''maruta'' is being killed. Just to add emphasis on this point, the mother commits suicide via cyanide capsule after delivering her child.
* {{Plaguemaster}}: Shiro Ishii ands his disciples are focused most on creating a bio-weapon that will ensure Japan's dominance in the world. To this end they kill thousands testing different viruses and end up creating the strain of Black Death that's sixty times stronger than the original.
* PrisonRiot: The ''marutas'' stage two rebellions, since the war is drawing to a close on terms unfavorable to Japan. Both attempts fail to stop the atrocities, but several Japanese soldiers are killed and Ishii's bio-weapons research is critically delayed.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: When Ishii discovers the officer who attempted to get him dismissed from Unit 731, he ensures that the man is sent to fight in the southern front against US soldiers, almost certainly condemning the man to die.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: When Ishii discovers the officer who attempted to get him dismissed from Unit 731, he ensures that the man is sent to fight in the southern front against US soldiers, almost certainly condemning the man to die.
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* SequelDecay: The film was followed by several sequels, none of which were anywhere near as shocking as the original.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Several are killed brutally over the course of the film. The soldiers seem to go out of their way to do it.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: A horrified orderly dashes out of a lab and vomits in horror and disgust. The man's friend tells Ishii he's been doing this for a month straight and hasn't gotten used to their hellish working conditions yet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Several are killed brutally over the course of thefilm.film (as a matter of fact, the first onscreen death is a three month old that's buried in snow). The soldiers seem to go out of their way to do it.
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