Title:JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS IMPRISONED IN HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 354
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, Hong Kong.
Description: The gates of Stanley prison slide open as a lorry carrying suspected war criminals approaches. The lorry drives in to the prison and the gates close behind it. View from the interior showing the gates opening and the lorry arriving. A prisoner gets down from the lorry as seen through bars. Prisoners in a line. Close-up of Colonel Tokunaga, commander of all prison camps in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. Close-up of Dr Saito, medical officer for camps in Hong Kong. A Japanese man (possibly Sergeant Matsuda, the bodyguard to the head of the Japanese Kempeitai in Hong Kong, Colonel Noma) is held under guard; one man has a Thompson submachine gun and the other, apparently a naval officer, unsheaths a short sword and waves it about. Prisoners are marched through a doorway; a guard with a Thompson leads them in and two more, also armed, follow them in. Interior footage, very dark, inside the prison building; suspects stand by their individual cells and go inside as one. A British soldier locks them in. Exterior view of the prison complex.
Attached media - films JFU 354, JFU 355 and JFU 356
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Tulloch, John ReayJohn Reay Tulloch, 375458, sergeant (later lieutenant, commissioned 25 April 1946) cameraman with No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit (SEAC Film Unit). (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Imperial Japanese Army, Kempeitai (regiment/service)
Keywords: Stanley, Hong Kong (geography)
Investigation of War Crimes, War Crimes Trials (event)
Singapore War Crimes Trials, War Crimes Trials (event)
Liberation of Hong Kong 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
