Tokyo Trial

The movie starts with 11 jurists from around the world to give the politicians and other people responsible for thier crimes in the World War II, where all of them are adament to give them a 'Fair Trail' but most of them just wants to see them hanging for their crimes. The movie is about the legal framework around war crimes at that time, and has some exception performances from great actors from around the world. Late Irrfan Khan plays Justice Radhabinod Pal and gives one of his best performance. Steal: how to get into character when you don't relate to it. Justification of violence, when violence is a reflex.

While the Nuremberg trial has been discussed often in history books and has been brought on screen twice (JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG and the miniseries NUREMBERG) very few remember of the Tokyo trial done always when World War II was over. Well, since I am an expert on rare movies I knew I had to watch this even tho I have never seen the original miniseries on which this is based. Nonetheless, I liked it very much. After the surrender of Japan an international tribune of judges from the victorious countries are tasked of determining the fate of Japanese war criminals. The movie then simply consists of courtroom parts and finally, some of the Japanese are found guilty and executed. The acting was nice by all, and it might seem a coincidence that Michael Ironside here played General Douglas McArthur and in NUREMBERG played Colonel Burton Andrus. And besides, the historical part is treated so well that if you are fans of the historical period (20th century) you are bound to like this very nice movie.