Best Wishes for Tomorrow

Best Wishes for Tomorrow (明日への遺言 Ashita e no yuigon) 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.

Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Japanese明日への遺言
Directed byTakashi Koizumi
Produced byMasato Hara
Written byTakashi Koizumi
Roger Pulvers
Shōhei Ōoka (novel)
StarringMakoto Fujita
Sumiko Fuji
Robert Lesser
Fred McQueen
Richard Neil
Music byTakashi Kako
Distributed byAsmik Ace Entertainment, Inc.
Release date
  • October 27, 2007 (2007-10-27) (Tokyo International Film Festival)
  • March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot summary

The postwar trial of Lieutenant General Tasuku Okada, who took responsibility for ordering the execution of 38 captured US prisoners of war, after he considered them to be war criminals instead for the war time fire bombing of Nagoya. Okada took full blame for the war crime, in effect, shielding his subordinates from harsh punishment and earning him wide respect. The movie seeks to call attention to the unresolved question of American war crime culpability in the fire and atomic bombings of Japan.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Pulvers, Roger An exemplar of where the war-crimes buck stops May 20, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
  2. Pulvers, Roger Maj. Gen. Okada: a rare leader who took the blame June 24, 2007 Japan Times Retrieved February 23, 2016
  3. Morio, Norio Japanese film a poetic look at a WWII war crime trial March 9, 2008 Archived March 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Stars and Stripes Retrieved February 23, 2016


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