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by director

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and based on the novel ''

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'' ("A long journey") by

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. It stars

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as Lieutenant General

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during the Yokohama War Crimes Trials.

Plot summary

The film depicts the war crimes trial of Lieutenant General

, 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.Morio, Nori
Japanese film a poetic look at a WWII war crime trial March 9, 2008
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