The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

War

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.

Director: Kiyoshi Komori
Writer: Kennosuke Tateoka

Casts

	Kanjūrō Arashi as Hideki Tojo
	Minoru Takada as Prime Minister Konoe
	Masao Shimizu as Kōki Hirota
	Hiroshi Hayashi as Foreign Affairs Minister Togo
	Joji Oka as War Minister Anami
	Jōji Ōhara as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan Kido
	Toshio Hosokawa as Ambassador Kurusu
	Toshiaki Konoe as Ambassador Nomura
	Ichirō Ryūzaki as Admiral Yamamoto
	Kōtarō Bandō as Admiral Yonai
	Takamaru Sasaki as Counsel Kiyose
	Ureo Egawa as Counsel Shimazu
	Yōichi Numata as Counsel Hayashi
	Shinsuke Mikimoto as
	Eijiro Sakauchi as Chief Defense Counsel Uzawa
	Shin Takemura as
	Arata Shibata as Sadao Araki
	Hyo Kitazawa as Shumei Okawa
	Akira Nakamura as Priest Hanayama
	Jūzaburō Akechi as Lieutenant Colonel Takeda
	Masanori Takeda as Prime Minister Suzuki
	Kyōji Kokonoe as Admiral Shimada
	Koji Hirose as Admiral Nagano
	Takeo Matsushita as Admiral Sugiyama
	Ryuji Wakamiya as Admiral Oikawa
	Tomohiko Ôtani as Vice-Admiral Nagumo
	Gen Funabashi as Vice-Admiral Ito
	Jushiro Kobayashi as Vice-Admiral Yamashita
	Sōzaburō Kikuchi as Captain of the Yamato
	Shigeru Amachi as First Officer of the Yamato
	Masao Takamatsu as Yamato Staff Officer
	Den Kunikata as Yamato Staff Officer
	Hiroshi Izumida as Yamato Staff Officer
	Tadashi Ikezuki as Yamato Staff Officer
	Jun Ōtomo as
	Shōzaburō Date as Lieutenant Yamada
	Tetsuro Tamba as
	Tsunemi Hirose as Seishiro Itagaki
	Takashi Yamaguchi as Iwane Matsui
	Eiichi Nobuo as Kenji Doihara
	Hiroki Nakanishi as Akira Muto
	Sōten Kuni as Heitaro Kimura
	Nagamasa Yamada as General Umezu
	Shusui Tsuda as Teiichi Suzuki
	Sadao Horiuchi as Mamoru Shigemitsu
	Takematsu Okuno as Shigeru Yoshida
	Hiroshi Ayukawa as Hatakeyama
	Shinji Arima as Patrolman Fujii
	Yukio Kohama as Kakiuchi
	Tōru Chiba as Secretary Omura
	Hiroaki Kurahashi as Counselor Inoue
	Minoru Asuka as Interpreter
	Mamoru Katsuya as Emperor of Manchukuo
	Isamu Eto as Ryukichi Tanaka
	Shūji Kawabe as Dr. Takikawa
	Sanae Takasugi as Mrs. Tojo
	Kinuko Obata as Tojo's older daughter
	Ayame Hanazono as Tojo's younger daughter
	Kimie Tokudaiji as Mrs. Hirota
	Fumiko Miyata as Hirota's older daughter
	Noriko Kitazawa as Hirota's younger daughter
	Katsuko Wakasugi as Lady Konoe
	Keinosuke Wada as Konoe's second son
	Miyuki Takakura as Tokyo Rose

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