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* AsYouKnow: There's a lot of this in the early going, most notably in the scene where Judge Webb explains to the other judges stuff they would have already known about the charges being laid at the trial.
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* AsYouKnow: There's a lot of this in the early going, most notably in the scene where Judge President Webb explains to the other judges stuff they would have already known about the charges being laid at the trial.
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* PutOnABus: Justice Higgins of the United States departs the tribunal at the end of the first episode, jaded by the stonewalling of both the prosecution and defense teams, and the suggestion that the leaders of the Allied forces should be put on trial too.
** President Webb leaves at the end of the second episode, due to machinations by several of the judges to push the tribunal towards their own agenda. However, he returns in the third episode to take back leadership over the tribunal.
** President Webb leaves at the end of the second episode, due to machinations by several of the judges to push the tribunal towards their own agenda. However, he returns in the third episode to take back leadership over the tribunal.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: A major theme of the film. The Japanese did wage aggressive war and commit atrocities, but they did not do anything like the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of a people which put them out of the bounds of morality. As a consequence several characters point out that in many respects the Allies and the Japanese were NotSoDifferent. An American lawyer defending the Japanese asks that if killing civilians is a war crime, why isn't Harry Truman in the dock for authorizing the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Judge Pal, who regards the whole trial as without merit, notes that the Western powers sitting in judgment over the Japanese were themselves colonizers who conquered the lands of the Far East themselves, before the Japanese replaced them as colonial masters.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: A major theme of the film. The While the Japanese did wage aggressive war and commit atrocities, but they did not do anything like the Holocaust, the systematic extermination tons of a people which put them out of the bounds of morality. As a consequence several characters point out atrocities that in many respects slaughtered millions, allegations of wrongdoings by the Allies and the Japanese were NotSoDifferent.are raised as well. An American lawyer defending the Japanese asks that if killing civilians is a war crime, why isn't Harry Truman in the dock for authorizing the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Judge Pal, who regards the whole trial as without merit, notes that the Western powers sitting in judgment over the Japanese were themselves colonizers who conquered the lands of the Far East themselves, before the Japanese replaced them as colonial masters.
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* SpeechBasedWork: A lot of people talking about international law, morality, what is legal, what isn't.
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* SpeechBasedWork: SpeechCentricWork: A lot of people talking about international law, morality, what is legal, what isn't.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Eta Harich-Schneider, the professional pianist who is evaluating Röling's violin skills, is a harsh critic.
-->'''Eta''': Your phrasing is all wrong. Go again!\\
'''Röling''': Right away?\\
'''Eta''': No, tomorrow. ''Go again''!
* AsYouKnow: There's a lot of this in the early going, most notably in the scene where Judge Webb explains to the other judges stuff they would have already known about the charges being laid at the trial.
* CallForward: Near the end Judge Patrick says that Judge Northcroft is advocating for a permanent tribunal for judging international crimes. Röling says that maybe it could be in the Netherlands. The International Criminal Court was established in the Netherlands, specifically in The Hague, but not until 2002.
-->'''Eta''': Your phrasing is all wrong. Go again!\\
'''Röling''': Right away?\\
'''Eta''': No, tomorrow. ''Go again''!
* AsYouKnow: There's a lot of this in the early going, most notably in the scene where Judge Webb explains to the other judges stuff they would have already known about the charges being laid at the trial.
* CallForward: Near the end Judge Patrick says that Judge Northcroft is advocating for a permanent tribunal for judging international crimes. Röling says that maybe it could be in the Netherlands. The International Criminal Court was established in the Netherlands, specifically in The Hague, but not until 2002.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: A major theme of the film. The Japanese did wage aggressive war and commit atrocities, but they did not do anything like the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of a people which put them out of the bounds of morality. As a consequence several characters point out that in many respects the Allies and the Japanese were NotSoDifferent. An American lawyer defending the Japanese asks that if killing civilians is a war crime, why isn't Harry Truman in the dock for authorizing the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Judge Pal, who regards the whole trial as without merit, notes that the Western powers sitting in judgment over the Japanese were themselves colonizers who conquered the lands of the Far East themselves, before the Japanese replaced them as colonial masters.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Just about all of them.
* {{Narrator}}: Creator/StacyKeach provides narration, chiefly explaining what is going on after the various {{Time Skip}}s.
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* {{Retraux}}: The black-and-white StockFootage of Tojo and the other defendants testifying, as well as clips of lawyers making arguments, is spliced together with footage of the actors in the movie (mostly the judges) listening to the testimony. This footage of the judges is shot in black and white to match the RealLife newsreel clips. The rest of the film is in color.
* SpeechBasedWork: A lot of people talking about international law, morality, what is legal, what isn't.
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** The opening sequence contains stock footage of some of the lowlights of the war, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the devastation of Hiroshima, or the horrors of the Rape of Nanking.
** Actors are not used to depict either the lawyers or Japanese defendants; instead stock footage clips of the real trial are used.
* VoiceoverLetter: The opening scene has Judge Röling writing a VoiceoverLetter to his wife about all the other judges at the trial, which doubles as anInfoDump.InfoDump.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Said almost word-for-word by Judge Pal, when he tells Judge Röling that the "so-called terrorists", resisting the Dutch in the Dutch East Indies, really "are freedom fighters who want to reclaim their country."
* SpeechBasedWork: A lot of people talking about international law, morality, what is legal, what isn't.
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** The opening sequence contains stock footage of some of the lowlights of the war, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the devastation of Hiroshima, or the horrors of the Rape of Nanking.
** Actors are not used to depict either the lawyers or Japanese defendants; instead stock footage clips of the real trial are used.
* VoiceoverLetter: The opening scene has Judge Röling writing a VoiceoverLetter to his wife about all the other judges at the trial, which doubles as an
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Said almost word-for-word by Judge Pal, when he tells Judge Röling that the "so-called terrorists", resisting the Dutch in the Dutch East Indies, really "are freedom fighters who want to reclaim their country."
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''Tokyo Trial'' is a 2016 television miniseries, which ran for four 45-minute episodes.
It is about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East International Military Tribunal for the Far East]], better known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trial or simply the Tokyo Trial. In 1946, with the Nuremberg Trial of the Nazi high command underway, a similar tribunal convenes in Tokyo to try the Japanese leadership. Former prime minister UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo and various members of the Japanese cabinet and military leadership will be tried for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.
The proceeding does not go as smoothly as the one being held in Nuremberg. The high commander in Occupied Japan, General Douglas [=MacArthur=], refuses to let Emperor Hirohito stand trial. [=MacArthur=] wants Hirohito to help him unify Japan into a democratic (and America-friendly) state, but Judge William Webb of Australia (Creator/JonathanHyde), president of the tribunal, is incensed at the prospect of letting the emperor off the hook. Some of the judges, such as William Patrick of Great Britain, are only too eager to hang the Japanese leadership, but others such as Judge Röling of the Netherlands wonder if the Allies, who dropped two nukes on the Japanese, have the moral standing to judge the Japanese. Finally there is Judge Pal of India (Creator/IrrfanKhan), who rejects the entire idea of the trial as being ''ex post facto'' law, and advocates for the acquittal of all defendants.
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!!Tropes:
* TheGhost: Hirohito. While the Japanese defendants are shown via StockFootage of the actual trial, Hirohito never appears at all. Yet the judges discuss him at length, wondering about his responsibility for the war and whether or not he could have stopped it or if he actually advocated for it.
* GroupPictureEnding: The series ends with all the judges taking a group picture, which cuts to the RealLife group picture the judges took.
* InfoDump: In the opening scene Judge Röling writes a VoiceoverLetter to his wife where he names the Western judges who will be at the trial, while he looks at pictures of them, thus naming them all for the audience.
* RealPersonEpilogue: Right before the end credits there's an epilogue with pictures of the real judges and some basic information about their later careers.
* VoiceoverLetter: The opening scene has Judge Röling writing a VoiceoverLetter to his wife about all the other judges at the trial, which doubles as an InfoDump.
It is about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East International Military Tribunal for the Far East]], better known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trial or simply the Tokyo Trial. In 1946, with the Nuremberg Trial of the Nazi high command underway, a similar tribunal convenes in Tokyo to try the Japanese leadership. Former prime minister UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo and various members of the Japanese cabinet and military leadership will be tried for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.
The proceeding does not go as smoothly as the one being held in Nuremberg. The high commander in Occupied Japan, General Douglas [=MacArthur=], refuses to let Emperor Hirohito stand trial. [=MacArthur=] wants Hirohito to help him unify Japan into a democratic (and America-friendly) state, but Judge William Webb of Australia (Creator/JonathanHyde), president of the tribunal, is incensed at the prospect of letting the emperor off the hook. Some of the judges, such as William Patrick of Great Britain, are only too eager to hang the Japanese leadership, but others such as Judge Röling of the Netherlands wonder if the Allies, who dropped two nukes on the Japanese, have the moral standing to judge the Japanese. Finally there is Judge Pal of India (Creator/IrrfanKhan), who rejects the entire idea of the trial as being ''ex post facto'' law, and advocates for the acquittal of all defendants.
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!!Tropes:
* TheGhost: Hirohito. While the Japanese defendants are shown via StockFootage of the actual trial, Hirohito never appears at all. Yet the judges discuss him at length, wondering about his responsibility for the war and whether or not he could have stopped it or if he actually advocated for it.
* GroupPictureEnding: The series ends with all the judges taking a group picture, which cuts to the RealLife group picture the judges took.
* InfoDump: In the opening scene Judge Röling writes a VoiceoverLetter to his wife where he names the Western judges who will be at the trial, while he looks at pictures of them, thus naming them all for the audience.
* RealPersonEpilogue: Right before the end credits there's an epilogue with pictures of the real judges and some basic information about their later careers.
* VoiceoverLetter: The opening scene has Judge Röling writing a VoiceoverLetter to his wife about all the other judges at the trial, which doubles as an InfoDump.
