Best Wishes for Tomorrow
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow (明日への遺言 Ashita e no yuigon) is a Japanese film by director Takashi Koizumi
Takashi Koizumi
Takashi Koizumi is a Japanese film director. He has received four nominations and four wins.-Filmography as Assistant Director:* Ran * Akira Kurosawa's Dreams...

 and based on the novel Nagai Tabi (A long journey) by Shohei Ooka.

Plot summary

The post war 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
Bombing of Nagoya in World War II
The Bombing of Nagoya in World War II by the United States Army Air Force took place during the closing months of the war.- History :The first was a precision bombing on December 13, 1944, the target of which was a Mitsubishi military factory. On January 3, 1945 there was a general firebombing of...

. 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.

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