| Director | Takashi Koizumi |
|---|---|
| Producer | Masato Hara |
| Screenplay | Takashi Koizumi Roger Pulvers |
| Starring | Makoto Fujita Sumiko Fuji Robert Lesser Fred McQueen Richard Neil |
| Music | Takashi Kako |
| Cinematography | Shoji Ueda |
| Distributor | Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. |
| Released | October 27, 2007 (Tokyo International Film Festival); March 1, 2008 (Japan) |
| Runtime | 110 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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| Kanji | 明日への遺言 |
Best Wishes for Tomorrow (明日への遺言, Ashita e no yuigon) is a 2007 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Koizumi, based on the novel Nagai Tabi (A Long Journey) by Shōhei Ōoka. It stars Makoto Fujita as Lieutenant General Tasuku Okada during the Yokohama War Crimes Trials.
Plot summary
The film depicts the war crimes trial of Lieutenant General Tasuku Okada, who ordered the execution of 38 captured US prisoners of war, after he considered them to be war criminals for the war time fire bombing of Nagoya. The movie seeks to call attention to supposed American war crime culpability in the fire and atomic bombings of Japan.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Pulvers, Roger An exemplar of where the war-crimes buck stops May 20, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Pulvers, Roger Maj. Gen. Okada: a rare leader who took the blame June 24, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Morio, Norio Japanese film a poetic look at a WWII war crime trial March 9, 2008 Archived March 9, 2016 at the Wayback Machine Stars and Stripes Retrieved February 23, 2016
External links
- Ashita e no yuigon at IMDb
- Official Site