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

Plot summary

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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]

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