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Best Wishes for Tomorrow

Summary

Best Wishes for Tomorrow (明日への遺言 Ashita e no yuigon) is a Japanese film by director Takashi Koizumi and 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.

Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Kanji明日への遺言
Directed byTakashi Koizumi
Written byTakashi Koizumi
Roger Pulvers
Shōhei Ōoka (novel)
Produced byMasato Hara
StarringMakoto Fujita
Sumiko Fuji
Robert Lesser
Fred McQueen
Richard Neil
Music byTakashi Kako
Distributed byAsmik Ace Entertainment, Inc.
Release dates
  • October 27, 2007 (2007-10-27) (Tokyo International Film Festival)
  • March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot summary edit

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 edit

  1. ^ Pulvers, Roger An exemplar of where the war-crimes buck stops May 20, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
  2. ^ Pulvers, Roger Maj. Gen. Okada: a rare leader who took the blame June 24, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
  3. ^ 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 edit

  • Ashita e no yuigon at IMDb  
  • Official Site