ACCUSED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL KAZUO KOGI AT HONG KONG [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ACCUSED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL KAZUO KOGI AT HONG KONG [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 495
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Japanese Lieutenant-Colonel Kazuo Kogi is taken to the site of a massacre in Hong Kong in 1943 in which he is accused of being involved.
  • Description: Prison gates slide open. Kogi is marched in, escorted by two soldiers of No. 1 Commando, and the camera follows him. He passes through the inner gate. A sergeant unties his hands with close-up. Kogi shoulders his pack. Close-up of Kogi with a Union flag flying behind. Closer shot. Kogi and a Japanese civilian interpreter named Numori are marched off towards a beach, scene of a massacre on 29 October 1943. Numori crouches by marker post at the site of the massacre reading the names of the dead; Kogi and an assortment of War Correspondents stand behind; they are named on the dopesheet as Captain Henry (Army Public Relations Officer), Messrs Hutcheson and Boyle of the Associated Press, and Mr Hawkins of Reuters. Reverse angle. Marker post foreground with Kogi behind. Two commandos named as Captain MacWhinnie and Sergeant Smith of No. 1 Commando, responsible for Kogi, stand at the site of the massacre. Attached media - films JFU 494, JFU 495, JFU 496 and JFU 497
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: JFU 495
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-12-15
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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 (regiment/service) British Army, No.1 Commando (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Stanley, Hong Kong (geography) Investigation of War Crimes, War Crimes Trials (event) Japanese Atrocities, War Crimes (event) Singapore War Crimes Trials, War Crimes Trials (event) India 1939-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 222 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    JFU 495

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    JFU 483 (IDENTIFICATION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS AT HONG KONG [Allocated Title]) JFU 354 (JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS IMPRISONED IN HONG KONG [Allocated Title]) JFU 589 ('HONG KONG TODAY': REHABILITATION OF HONG KONG AND OPENING OF HONG KONG WAR CRIMES TRIALS [Allocated Title])
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