Tokyo Trial

TV Mini Series
2016
50m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Michael Ironside, Paul Freeman, Jonathan Hyde, Irrfan Khan, Hadewych Minis, and Julian Wadham in Tokyo Trial (2016)

A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII.A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII.A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII.

Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

YOUR RATING

Stars

40User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Episodes4

Browse episodes

TopTop-rated 1 Season 2016

Trivia
All the furniture in the courtroom, hotel and restaurant sets were custom-built replicas made by the art and construction departments for use on the production in order for everything to look authentic.

Goofs
Major General Cramer, Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the United States Army, is wearing the Corps of Engineers branch insignia instead of the JAG branch insignia.

Connections
Edited into Tokyo Trial (2017)

User reviews40

Review

Featured review

8/10

Thoughtful and Deliberate

Not for the impatient, this 4 part series is designed for viewers who are willing to listen to everything that is said.

Ideas about atrocities, crimes against humanity, and what is acceptable in war-making are presented throughout. Always in the background: the Nuremberg Trials and how posterity will view the trial and the judges.

Production values are top-notch but never over the top. There's a very clever interpolation of actual courtroom newsreel footage with scenes from this show -- very good set and color matching.

This is a show about ideas and about how the winners view morality and their roles in defining what is and is not acceptable in warfare.

Recommended.