Tokyo Trial
- heavy
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- intense
- cold
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Heavy, measured, measured documentary / war-crimes, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes; from the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal (May 1946–November 1948). It took two days to read the charges against the 100 alleged war criminals in the docket (only 28 top officials are actually in the small courtroom), and the final judgment took one week to read.
Our read · Tokyo Trial (1983) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded documentary · war-crimes · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Tokyo Trial
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a long archival documentary on the Tokyo war crimes trials.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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