| Best Wishes for Tomorrow | |||||||||
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| Starring: | Makoto Fujita Sumiko Fuji Robert Lesser Fred McQueen Richard Neil | ||||||||
| Director: | Takashi Koizumi | ||||||||
| Producer: | Masato Hara | ||||||||
| Distributor: | Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. | ||||||||
| Runtime: | 110 minutes | ||||||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||||||
| Music: | Takashi Kako | ||||||||
Best Wishes for Tomorrow (Japanese: 明日への遺言) 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.
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]