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About Tokyo Trial
| Netflix Title | Tokyo Trial |
| Release Date | 12 December 2016 |
| Production Location | Japan USA |
| Directed by | Pieter Verhoeff Rob W. King |
| Cast | Tim Ahern as Myron C. Cramer Paul Freeman as William. D. Patrick Serge Hazanavicius as Henri Bernard Marcel Hensema as B. V. A. Röling William Hope as John P. Higgins Jonathan Hyde as President Sir William Webb Michael Ironside as Gen. Douglas MacArthur Irrfan Khan as Radhabinod Pal Stephen McHattie as E. Stuart McDougall David Tse as Mei Ru’ao Shin’ya Tsukamoto as Michio Takeyama Julian Wadham as Erima H. Northcroft Bert Matias as Col. Delfín Jaranilla Hadewych Minis as Eta Harich-Schneider |
| Plot | During the struggle of World War 2, the fate of Japanese criminals lie on the shoulders of a group of judges. This forms the basis for a high profile international trial |
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Tokyo Trial Episodes
S101
As the trial comes to a close, Webb learns the majority is writing a judgment without him. The divided tribunal must still debate the final sentencing phase of the trial
S102
When the judges move to oust Tribunal President Webb, MacArthur must appoint a new leader. The recently arrived justice from India stirs tensions.
S103
A president is appointed. Pal and Roling came into the opposition of each other, as Pal is writing his own separate judgment.
S104
In the spring of 1946, Judges from 11 Allied nations begin assembling in a war-torn Tokyo hotel to argue the atrocities of Japanese war Criminals.
Tokyo Trial – Reviews
The trial shows that it did not require a law as there was no international law at the time the Japanese fought the Allies in the WW II. Legally, the Japanese must not have been tried for war crimes by a law enacted subsequently or by the principle of another trial happened elsewhere for some different crimes.
The European, the Russian, the Chinese Judges were guided by their personal biases and they were openly influenced by the interests of the nations they belonged to. It was a Farce. It was set up to punish the Japanese for a crime for which even the Allies were equally guilty.
There are some cinematographic liberties that reflect the personal condition of each judge or that of some of the characters, for example, the pianist; what happened to the German pianist? Other than those minor elements, the series was excellent. The lone Indian Judge, Justice Radha Binod Pal played excellently by Irfan Khan was the exception – he pronounced NOT GUILTY. All the other Judges tried to even threaten him to submit to the majority view. But Justice Pal knew the Rule of Law well.
