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The Tokyo Trial

6.3 111 mins Crime   Drama   2006
Beijing Xianming  
Director(s): Gao Qunshu

This film was directed by Gao Qunshu and is about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after Japan's surrender in World War II. The movie presents the trial from the point of view of the Chinese judge Mei Ju-ao. The director and his crew spent more than a year doing research to finish the script, which is based on historical data. It cost 18 million yuan (2.25 million U.S. dollars). This film hired actors from 11 countries, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and other places, including actors such as Kenneth Tsang and Damian Lau. They recreated court scenes from the trial in Chinese, English and Japanese. It was shown in cinemas and around 100 universities across mainland China to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China.

Casts of The Tokyo Trial

Kelly Lin Hsi-Lei

as Yoshiko Wada

Liu Weiwei

as Drunk's wife

Damian Lau Chung-Yan

as Mei Ru'ao

Ding Yongdai

as General Zhu

Kenneth Tsang

as Hsiang Che-Chun

Ken Chu

as

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