Today, the film "731" opened worldwide. According to online data, as of 7:53 PM, "731" has surpassed 300 million yuan at the box office, with a cumulative attendance of 8.218 million. The film also holds the record for the most screened single-day film in Chinese history.
The film "731," co-produced by the Propaganda Departments of the Heilongjiang, Shandong, and Jilin Provincial Party Committees and other departments, is set in 1945, just before the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It exposes the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army's Unit 731 in Harbin's Pingfang District, where they secretly conducted bacteriological warfare research under the guise of "water supply and epidemic prevention," and captured and subjected civilians to live experiments. The film, from the perspective of ordinary people, reveals the Japanese invaders' atrocities against humanity. Street vendor Wang Yongzhang (played by Jiang Wu) and others were forcibly taken to Unit 731's "special prison," where they were deceived by the Japanese invaders with false promises of freedom in exchange for cooperation with health checks and epidemic prevention research. They were then subjected to extreme torture, including frostbite experiments, poison gas experiments, and vivisection.
The movie "731" has a release time of 125 minutes and will start at 9:00 today. The screening schedules of theaters in many places show that the first screening of "731" is scheduled for 9:18 and is marked with the "Alarm Bell Keeps Ringing" logo.
