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Philosophy of a Knife is a 2008 Russian-American horror film written, produced, shot, edited, and directed by Andrey Iskanov. It covers the Japanese Army's Unit 731, mixing archival footage, interviews, and extremely graphic reenactments of experiments performed there.
The film is four hours long, is presented in two parts (Part one and Part two), is in English, and shot in black and white. The interviews are shot in color and have English subtitles.
Original Release
01/01/2008
US Release
01/01/2008
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tetsuro Sakagami | The Officer #1 |
Tomoya Okamoto | The Officer #2 |
Yukari Fujimoto | The Female Nurse #1 |
Manoush | The Female Nurse #1 (voice) / The Female Nurse #1 |
Yumiko Fujiwara | The Female Nurse #2 |
Masaki Kitagava | The Female Nurse #3 |
Reiko Niakawa | The Female Nurse #4 |
Elena Romanova Probatova | The Favorite Girl |
Tatyana Kopeykina | The Blond Girl with Toy Bear |
Veronika Leonova | The Brunette Girl |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tetsuro Sakagami | The Officer #1 |
Tomoya Okamoto | The Officer #2 |
Yukari Fujimoto | The Female Nurse #1 |
Manoush | The Female Nurse #1 (voice) / The Female Nurse #1 |
Yumiko Fujiwara | The Female Nurse #2 |
Masaki Kitagava | The Female Nurse #3 |
Reiko Niakawa | The Female Nurse #4 |
Elena Romanova Probatova | The Favorite Girl |
Tatyana Kopeykina | The Blond Girl with Toy Bear |
Veronika Leonova | The Brunette Girl |
Irina Nikitina | The Pregnant Girl |
Dmitriy Skripnik | The Captured Airplane Pilot |
Alyona Strebkova | The Dental Torture Girl |
Vladimir Volodin | The Syphilis Experiment Man |
Irina Zenkina | The Syphilis Experiment Girl |
Svyatoslav Iliyasov | The Male Nurse |
Anna Subbotina | The Insect Experiment Girl |
Artem Seleznyov | The Frostbite Experiment Man |
Vladimir Kucherenko | The Radioactivity Experiment Man |
Victor Silkin | The Old Surgeon |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Andrey Iskanov | Producer |
Stephen Biro | Producer |