The Sea and Poison (1986) on Netflix
Eight airmen from a downed B-29 are brought to a Kyushu medical school, where military orders call for their vivisection. Suguro, a researcher pressed into the work, cannot quiet his conscience.
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Eight crew members of a downed B-29 are delivered to the medical school of Kyushu Imperial University, where the military orders the staff to cut the American prisoners open. The procedure is meant to answer whether a person can live once their organs are taken out. Suguro, a researcher forced to take part, is troubled by his conscience, while his colleague Toda first scorns that distress and then questions his own lack of feeling under such circumstances. Factional struggles inside the department pull the two young researchers along, and American MPs question two interns and a nurse about their part in the vivisections.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Sea and Poison (1986)
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- Kei Kumai submitted his film proposal to Nikkatsu after his 1970 film Apart from Life, but the studio was on the brink of bankruptcy and other companies shunned it as "dark, heavy, and difficult." A businessman offered to fund it, and 17 years later the film was finally produced.
- The film is based on a true case: downed American pilots in World War II who were vivisected by Japanese surgeons at Kyushu Imperial University.
