Ep 12 was real fun again. The scenes where they're on the filming set are the best. The director and the manager are such enjoyable support characters. Am cheering at Lee Jung Jae's outfits! Way to go! The 2nd couple is best forgotten, their whole thing seems very forced.
I laughed a lot watching this drama. Truly enjoyable. Sad that people are missing out since for me this is undoubtedly one of the best k-dramas this year. The ending was not as good as I hoped, though. Sullivan's actions and motives made little sense. And the congresswoman got off too easily. I don't understand why they didn't force her to reveal the evidence concerning the corrupted court verdict. Since that's what Sullivan wanted. And she was in their den, just carelessly hanging out when she could have stopped the bombing by revealing the evidence. But the whole drama, the found family with the neighborhood army, the duo Yoon Kye Sang and Jin Seon Kyu, was so preciously good and funny. The scene with the mini race cars in particular had me choking (and the background music in that scene, damn good humour). And how even the laundry uncle turned out to be an ace sniper shooter in the last episode. I don't normally rate action but in this one it was really good. Hope to see YKS in more action roles.
Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation. It’s documents, confessions and trial records. What is it exactly? 👇 👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include: - Trial transcripts - Soviet investigation files - Internal government correspondence - Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators: - Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731 - Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals - Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation
This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny: ➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.
What Unit 731 actually did? 👇 👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731: - Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic - Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus - Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians
At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China. 👉 Unit 731 scientists: - Were never prosecuted - Were given immunity by the United States - Handed over their data in exchange for freedom - Later worked in postwar research institutions
Recommendation: Lost Identity (2024) is a very good espionage drama that deals with the Japanese bioweapons development and human experiments in China during WWII. The ML (Johnny Huang) is an escapee from a bioweapons research lab.
Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation. It’s documents, confessions and trial records. What is it exactly? 👇 👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include: - Trial transcripts - Soviet investigation files - Internal government correspondence - Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators: - Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731 - Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals - Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation
This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny: ➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.
No “rogue doctors”. No “isolated incidents”. What Unit 731 actually did? 👇 👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731: - Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic - Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus - Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians
At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China. This wasn’t science. This was industrialised murder disguised as research. The part the West avoids mentioning: 👇 👉 Many Unit 731 scientists: - Were never prosecuted - Were given immunity by the United States - Handed over their data in exchange for freedom - Later worked in postwar research institutions
That deal buried accountability, not the crimes. Why this matters now? 👇 👉 China’s Central Archives says these materials: - Contain previously unknown evidence - Form a continuous chain of proof - Leave “no room for dispute”
Translation: denial just got a lot harder. The timing says everything! This announcement was made on China’s National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre. In 1937, Japanese forces slaughtered ~300,000 civilians in six weeks. From 1931–1945, Japan’s invasion caused over 35 million Chinese casualties. China hasn’t forgotten, even if Japan has. 👉 The Unit 731 Exhibition Hall in Harbin: - Drew over 3 million visitors in 2024 - Is expected to match or exceed that in 2025 👉 One visitor wrote: “I know the bacteria. I know the equipment. But seeing it all together fills me with anger.” The uncomfortable truth: 👇 This isn’t about reopening old wounds. It’s about exposing crimes that were never properly answered for. When history is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear. It waits.
📌 Unit 731 wasn’t an atrocity that went unnoticed, it was an atrocity that was protected.
Do you mean cartoonish psycho and blockbuster villain cackling, or just that you don't like the type? I'm trying…
Just my view and I don't find psycho villains interesting to watch. I prefer dramas where villains are more grey than black. Interesting characters who we get to know deeply and sympathize with whilst condemning their crimes. Like Lele in The First Shot.
Don't know if I'll return to this one (watched 2 episodes) as I really really dislike psycho villains and this one has all the typical expressions (mad grinning & laughing)
C-noir dramas are fantastic. It's not that they do not make these kinds dramas, they do and they're domestically…
You're right, of course. I'm wholeheartedly wanting people to find these dramas as I really find them excellent. (But comforting myself by the thought that the domestic audience is enough)
It's historically accurate and ML is based on a real historical figure.
There's Portugese and English spoken here and there. But I wouldn't have thought this to be the criterion. Blossoms Shanghai, dropped that one, it was messy and boring.
this cdrama is so good.... I usually watch kdrama bc police/crime cdramas usually dissapoint me, but this is a…
C-noir dramas are fantastic. It's not that they do not make these kinds dramas, they do and they're domestically popular. People here simply do not know about them, most of the best dramas have less than 1000 watchers. Domestic audience is enough for the industry, however, they don't need foreign acknowledgement. https://kisskh.at/list/Lp6QvXR4
Been watching this last few days and at 7... surprisingly good Watched it cause of the main actor from the winning…
Day of Kidnapping is fantastic. Chocolate. Crime Puzzle, although it's very dark. I also loved Yoon Kye Sang in The Frog. YKS is absolute one of the very best actors.
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But the whole drama, the found family with the neighborhood army, the duo Yoon Kye Sang and Jin Seon Kyu, was so preciously good and funny. The scene with the mini race cars in particular had me choking (and the background music in that scene, damn good humour). And how even the laundry uncle turned out to be an ace sniper shooter in the last episode. I don't normally rate action but in this one it was really good. Hope to see YKS in more action roles.
Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For
China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation.
It’s documents, confessions and trial records.
What is it exactly? 👇
👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include:
- Trial transcripts
- Soviet investigation files
- Internal government correspondence
- Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts
They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators:
- Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731
- Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals
- Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation
This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny:
➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.
What Unit 731 actually did? 👇
👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731:
- Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic
- Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus
- Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians
At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China.
👉 Unit 731 scientists:
- Were never prosecuted
- Were given immunity by the United States
- Handed over their data in exchange for freedom
- Later worked in postwar research institutions
see also https://x.com/MediaUnlock/status/1999721283370770454
Wikipedia: Shiro Ishii
The US brought the Unit 731 scientists to the US immediately after Japan surrendered hence they faced no trial for these and many more atrocities. Shiro Ishii continued his bioweapons research in the US. He was brought by the US to Korea and used them on North Koreans during the Korean war. (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54)
Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For
China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation.
It’s documents, confessions and trial records.
What is it exactly? 👇
👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include:
- Trial transcripts
- Soviet investigation files
- Internal government correspondence
- Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts
They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators:
- Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731
- Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals
- Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation
This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny:
➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.
No “rogue doctors”. No “isolated incidents”.
What Unit 731 actually did? 👇
👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731:
- Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic
- Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus
- Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians
At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China.
This wasn’t science.
This was industrialised murder disguised as research.
The part the West avoids mentioning: 👇
👉 Many Unit 731 scientists:
- Were never prosecuted
- Were given immunity by the United States
- Handed over their data in exchange for freedom
- Later worked in postwar research institutions
That deal buried accountability, not the crimes.
Why this matters now? 👇
👉 China’s Central Archives says these materials:
- Contain previously unknown evidence
- Form a continuous chain of proof
- Leave “no room for dispute”
Translation: denial just got a lot harder.
The timing says everything!
This announcement was made on China’s National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre.
In 1937, Japanese forces slaughtered ~300,000 civilians in six weeks.
From 1931–1945, Japan’s invasion caused over 35 million Chinese casualties.
China hasn’t forgotten, even if Japan has.
👉 The Unit 731 Exhibition Hall in Harbin:
- Drew over 3 million visitors in 2024
- Is expected to match or exceed that in 2025
👉 One visitor wrote:
“I know the bacteria. I know the equipment. But seeing it all together fills me with anger.”
The uncomfortable truth: 👇
This isn’t about reopening old wounds.
It’s about exposing crimes that were never properly answered for.
When history is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear.
It waits.
📌 Unit 731 wasn’t an atrocity that went unnoticed, it was an atrocity that was protected.
see also https://x.com/MediaUnlock/status/1999721283370770454
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Addition [see eg. Wikipedia: Shiro Ishii]:
The US brought the Unit 731 scientists to the US immediately after Japan surrendered hence they faced no trial for these and many more atrocities. Shiro Ishii continued his bioweapons research in the US. He was brought by the US to Korea and used them on North Koreans during the Korean war. (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54)