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Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre Country Hong Kong Directed by Mou Tun Fei Release Date 1995 Language Cantonese Studio T.F. Film Company Main Cast Character Actor

Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (Hei tai yang: Nan Jing da tu sha, 黑太陽─南京大屠殺) is a 1995 Hong Kong war drama about the Nanking Massacre in December 1937. The film was also released as Men Behind the Sun 4 as it was the fourth in the line of Hong Kong movies about the events of Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII on Far East, started by Men Behind the Sun (1988).

The following weapons were used in the film Greg-Z/Sandbox:

Handguns

Nambu Type 14

Imperial Japanese army officers use Nambu Type 14 pistols.

Late Nambu Type 14 - 8x22mm Nambu

Rifles

Arisaka Type 38

Imperial Japanese army soldiers are armed wtih Arisaka Type 38 rifles, mostly seen with attached bayonets. In the opening scene Chinese soldiers are also seen with Arisaka rifles instead of issued Mausers.

Arisaka Type 38 rifle - 6.5x50mmSR Arisaka

Machine Guns

Type 11 Light Machine Gun

Imperial Japanese troops use Type 11 Light Machine Guns.

Type 11 Light Machine Gun - 6.5x50mm Arisaka

Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun

Imperial Japanese troops also use Type 92 Heavy Machine Guns.

Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun - 7.7x58mm SR

Maxim-Tokarev

In the opening scene several belt-fed light machine guns are seen among the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. They appear to be Soviet Maxim-Tokarev (or simply MT) machine guns. Later MTs are also used by Imperial Japanese troops. In reality some number of MTs was supplied to Chinese Kuomintang troops so they could be captured and reused by Japanese army.

Maxim-Tokarev M1926 light machine gun - 7.62x54mm R

Hand Grenades

Type 67 stick grenade

Both Chinese and Japanese soldiers are seen with stick hand grenades. They appear to be Type 67 stick grenades, standing for similar looking Japanese Type 98 and Chinese Type 23.

Type 67 High-Explosive Fragmentation stick grenade