Reporter Chen Qianxiu/Comprehensive Report
Netflix's Korean drama "Monster of Beijing" has been launched globally since the 22nd, and has rushed to the top of the ratings in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and other places. The background of the play is set in Beijing at the end of World War II in 1945, and after the series was broadcast, some viewers were reminded of Japan's Unit 731, Unit 731 conducted many inhumane human experiments at that time, and the cruel history once again sparked discussion.
Netflix's Korean drama "Monster of Beijing" is launched globally, and the promotion in Japan is relatively low-key. (Photo/Retrieved from X/Netflix Korea)
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"Monster of the Capital" depicts the Japanese army experimenting on the people in a secret base at that time, and then because of the disadvantage of the war, the army withdrew from the base and shot the people in prison one by one, while the half-dead were thrown into the pit, doused with gasoline and burned, and the bloody images challenged the visual scale. However, these experiments and burning scenes are reminiscent of the actual existence of Japan's Unit 731 in World War II.
Park Seo-joon has a torture scene in "Monster in Beijing", and the theme described in the series is quite terrifying. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook/Netflix)
Japan's Unit 731 was during World War II, recruiting doctors from all over the country with high salaries to join, and when Japan occupied Manchuria, it conducted human experiments, bacteriological experiments and other research in the local area, because the process was cruel and inhumane, even women and children were also experimental subjects, becoming the ugliest insider of World War II, and at least 10,000 innocent people were arrested for experiments. Japan's NHK made a documentary in 2017 to directly face the cruel history of his country, when he served as a junior soldier of Unit 731, tearfully dragging the body to a certain place, pouring gasoline and burning it, and picking up bones afterwards, and fighting in his heart.
"Monsters of the Capital" is broadcast in two parts, the first episode of the first episode is the army is evacuated, the people who are tested are thrown into the pit, and even the corpses are stacked high, and then doused with gasoline and burned. It is exactly in line with the content of the tearful complaint of Japanese World War II veterans.
The evil deeds of the human experiments of the Japanese Unit 731 have been published in later generations to record the painful and cruel process of the book. (Photo/Retrieved from X)
Although "Monster of Beijing" was launched globally and was relatively low-key in Japan, the appeal of Park Seo-joon and Han Shao-hee's co-performance made the series hit second in the ratings on Netflix in Japan. Based on the comments on the daily network on X (Twitter) and the discussion area, netizens frankly admitted that "I have a complicated mood after watching it", and some people think that they can simply appreciate the story itself, and the two factions of opinion express their own opinions.
"Monster in Beijing" Park Seo-joon and Han Shao-hee have great star appeal, but Japanese Korean drama fans admit that they have mixed moods after watching it. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook/Netflix)