''The Tokyo Trial'' () is a Chinese film released in 2006.

Plot

This film was directed by

Gao Qunshu Gao Qunshu () is a Chinese film director. Filmography * '' The Tokyo Trial'' (2006) * ''Old Fish'' (2008) * '' The Message'' (2009) * '' Wind Blast'' (2010) * '' Beijing Blues'' (2012) * ''Crimes of Passion'' (2013) * ''The New Year's Eve of Old ...

and is about the

International Military Tribunal for the Far East The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for crimes against peace, conven ...

after Japan's surrender in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. The movie presents the trial from the point of view of the Chinese judge Mei Ju-ao. The director and his crew spent more than a year doing research to finish the script, which is based on historical data. It cost 18 million yuan (2.25 million U.S. dollars). This film hired actors from 11 countries, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and other places, including actors such as

Kenneth Tsang Kenneth Tsang Kong (; 5 October 1934 – 27 April 2022) was a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015. Early ...

and

Damian Lau Damian Lau Chung-yan (born 14 October 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV. Biography ...

. They recreated court scenes from the trial in Chinese, English and Japanese. It was shown in cinemas and around 100 universities across

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China.

Cast

as Mei Ju-ao, a judge *

Ken Chu Ken Chu () is a Taiwanese singer, composer, actor, cook; and a member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band F4. Educated in Singapore (Boon Lay Secondary School), he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Biography Chu was worki ...

as Hsiao Nan *

Kelly Lin Kelly Lin or Lin Hsi-Lei () is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films. Biography Lin was born in Taiwan in 1973. She moved to Santa Barbara, California with her family at the age of 12. She graduated from the U ...

as Yoshiko Wada *

Xiang Zhejun Xiang Zhejun (; 1892—1987), native of Ningxiang county in Hunan province, was a Chinese jurist and prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Education and early career After graduating from Tsinghua University in 19 ...

Eric Tsang Eric Tsang Chi-wai (; born 14 April 1953) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host, best known for hosting the variety show ''Super Trio series'' on the Hong Kong television network TVB over 18 years. He currently holds ...

as Masato Wada * Tse Kwan-Ho as Yuichi Kitano *

Ying Da Ying Da (; born July 7, 1960) is a Chinese actor and director, best known in film for portraying Louie Wang in ''Big Shot's Funeral'' (2001), Ni Zhengyu in '' The Tokyo Trial'' (2006) and Jin Shenghuo in '' The Message'' (2009), and has received c ...

as Ni Zhengyu * John Henry Cox as

Joseph B. Keenan Joseph Berry Keenan (11 January 1888, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island – 8 December 1954, in Asheboro, North Carolina

* Daniel Albert Ziskie as William Webb * Koike Karashiji as Ichiro Kiyose * Akira Hoshino as

Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo (, ', December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistan ...

* Sakae Koike as

Kenji Doihara was a Japanese army officer. As a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, he was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. As a leading intelligence officer, he played a key role to the Japanese machinations that le ...

* Natori Tsuramasashi as

Iwane Matsui was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937. He was convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies for his involvement in the Nanjing Massacre. Born in Nagoya, Matsui chose ...

* Shingo Hiramatsu as

Seishirō Itagaki was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and War Minister from 1938 to 1939. Itagaki was a main conspirator behind the Mukden Incident and held prestigious chief of ...

* Usaburo Oshima as

Ryūkichi Tanaka was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Biography Early military career Tanaka was born in what is now part of the city of Yasugi in Shimane Prefecture, and attended a military preparatory school in Hiroshima. He g ...

* Mo Qi as

Shūmei Ōkawa was a Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, known for his publications on Japanese history, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and colonialism. Background Ōkawa was born in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan in 1886. He graduated from ...

* Bai Xueyun as Wada Eiko * Guo Tao as Y.H. Ku * Li Yusheng as

Puyi Aisin-Gioro Puyi (; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967), courtesy name Yaozhi (曜之), was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty monarch. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate on 1 ...

* Zhu Hongjia as Kao Wen-pin

Release

In 2006, the film was released in China. On February 1, 2007, the film. Was released in Hong Kong.

Reception

According to ''

People's Daily The ''People's Daily'' () is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The newspaper provides direct information on the policies and viewpoints of the CCP. In addition to its main Chinese-language ...

'', "Ten days after its debut on September 1, the film about the trial of Japanese war criminals had racked up 10 million yuan (1.25 million U.S. dollars) at the box office, despite competition from Hollywood blockbuster '' X-Men: The Last Stand''."Tokyo trial film enjoys big success
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