东京审判

The can would not open.

In 2015, director Chen Yinan and Xiang Longwan stood over a film can that had sat in the U.S. National Archives for 70 years. Xiang is the son of Xiang Zhejun, China's chief prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Chen pried the lid with a ballpoint pen. Black-and-white footage rolled. In the Tokyo courtroom, speaking English, Xiang Zhejun answered Japan's lawyers, who had argued there was no war with China because Japan had never declared one. "If this is not war, I would like to ask what is war?" latestnetflix.com's view is that his son, then 74, watched from behind the projector and tried not to break.

This series is that hunt, not Gao Qunshu's 2006 feature and not NHK's 2016 judge drama. Shanghai Media Group's foreign-language channel ICS first aired Tokyo Trial on September 1, 2015. Dragon TV followed. Chen directed the opening episode. Producer Chen Bing told The Paper the crew had pulled about 100 of more than 700 archive reels that concerned the Chinese delegation. Puyi's testimony. Prosecutor Xiang's closing on Itagaki Seishiro. Ni Zhengyu's cross of Doihara Kenji. A clip of Puyi in the dock passed 900,000 views online.

The professor almost sent them packing.

Cheng Zhaoqi, who ran Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Tokyo Trial center, met the team in a year stuffed with 70th-anniversary commissions. "If you are only doing this for the occasion, do not come to me." Chen came back with annotated books. He told them to stay calm and rational. The unit was the same all-women group that had already won a Los Angeles-area Emmy for China's Challenges. After travel they had three days inside the Archives. Zhu Xiaoqian, the series director, later called the haul a small-budget miracle.

Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama sat for them. He said Abe's government was trying to deny the Tokyo Trial, and that doing so would overturn the postwar order. Japanese scholars who had never spoken to Chinese cameras talked on the record. Zhu noticed Japanese teenagers did not meet the trial in their textbooks. The 2015 series won Best Documentary Series at the 21st Asian Television Awards in Singapore in December 2016. Zhu skipped the stage. She was already cutting a new season.

They came back with three more nights.

ICS ran the 2016 season December 13 to 15 at 8 p.m., on the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims. A Battlefield Without Gunsmoke. A Trial Beyond the Victors. Memory That Cannot Be Forgotten. Gao Wenbin, then 95, the Chinese delegation's translator, said the original footage matched the room he remembered. The crew used more than 20 minutes of trial footage Jiao Tong's press had bought in U.S. archives. They interviewed Naoto Kan and former ambassador Miyamoto Yuji. Cheng praised the Japanese experts speaking on camera. He Qinhua, former president of East China University of Political Science and Law, said the tone was not a victim nation's tantrum.

In November 2018 the series screened at the National Archives' McGowan Theater, the first time that hall showed a documentary from Chinese state media. Chen told the room the footage had come from their own stacks. First snow of the East Coast season fell outside. Nearly 300 people filled the seats.

Chen later said she ran a fever for months on the first pass, then spent about three months depressed after the first film landed. She compared the weight to Iris Chang. In 2020 she produced a third Tokyo Trial season while pregnant and directing Asia-Pacific War Trials. TMDB still files the whole run under this 2015 key. The rusted can is the part that stuck.