EXCLUSIVE : Fortissimo Films has secured international sales to upcoming Chinese war drama 731 and will introduce the feature to buyers at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this week.

The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company will handle rights to the film for Europe, the Middle East and South America. It is scheduled for release in China on September 18.

Directed by Zhao Linshan, the story is inspired by one of the darkest and least-known chapters of the Second World War. It centres on the Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious Unit 731, which conducted biological and chemical experiments on human subjects in occupied China during the 1940s. The film, set entirely within the sterile confines of the military compound in China’s northeastern region, has a cast that includes Ji

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