Pride: The Fateful Moment
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- Movie: Pride: The Fateful Moment
- Romaji: Puraido: Unmei no toki
- Japanese: プライド 運命の瞬間
- Director: Shunya Ito
- Writer: Shunya Ito, Hiro Matsuda
- Producer: Masao Sato
- Cinematographer: Katsuhiro Kato
- Release Date: May 23, 1998
- Runtime: 161 min.
- Studio: Toei
- Distributor: Toei
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
"Pride" is the story of Japanese Prime Minister turned WWII General Hideki Tojo, the accused class "A" war criminal who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. His struggle is seen through the eyes of his laudable wife, Katsuko, perhaps the only person to know the human side of Tojo - a family man, loving husband, and Samurai spirit with overwhelming pride, patriotism, and self sacrifice for his country. The story is set against the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which tried Tojo and 27 other Japanese officials for war crimes. Courtroom clashes take charge as the defense counsel questions whether or not the Allied Powers, who are the victors, have jurisdiction to indict officials of the defeated Japan. The defense points out that if murder in war is an indictable crime, then the very man that ordered the Atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima can be named and held accountable. But the sharp Prosecutor, Joseph Keenen, is set on using the Tokyo Trial as a platform to defend his country from future threats of Japanese militarism. By destroying Tojo's spirit and silencing the defense, even so far as cutting off Japanese translations of important testimony, Keenen's revenge is a forgone conclusion.
Cast
- Masahiko Tsugawa - Gen. Hideki Tojo
- Scott Wilson - Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan
- Ronny Cox - Chief Justice Sir William Webb
- Gitan Otsuru - Yasuo Tachibana
- Naho Toda - Akiko Shintani
- Suresh Oberoi - Justice, Dr. Radhabinod Pal
- Anupam Kher - Subhas Chandra Bose
- Eiji Okuda - Ichiro Kiyose
- Ayumi Ishida - Katsuko Tojo
- Peter Hosking - Counsel Brooks
- Gin Maeda
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Phil Gaskill Says:
Dec 13 2010 8:02 am
The first few words have the chronology backwards: Tojo was a prominent, high-ranking general (Major General in 1933, for instance) who became the Army Minister in July 1940 and then the Prime Minister of Japan in October 1941 (retaining the Army Minister position at the same time, by the way).