Directed by Masaki Kobayashi • 1983 • Japan

Modeled after the Nuremberg trials, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East took place between 1946 and 1948 to prosecute war crimes committed by Japanese politicians and military leaders between 1928 and 1945. Powerfully assembled from over nine hundred reels of archival footage of the proceedings by renowned filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi (HARAKIRI, THE HUMAN CONDITION)—a pacifist, socialist, and former prisoner of war—THE TOKYO TRIAL is a work of monumental historical weight that exposes, with haunting clarity, the shattering moral consequences of war and the fraught, often elusive pursuit of justice.