The Purple Heart Page #4

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And you must eat and rest.

My house is not far.

(speaks Chinese language)

My son joins me

in urging you to accept our invitation.

OK. We'll take a chance. If you're on the level,

we'll never know how to thank you enough.

But if you cross us,

we'll certainly know how to kill you.

(laughs)

As Your Excellencies can see,

my guests found no method

of carrying out their promise.

I am still in excellent health.

The court is particularly interested

in any conversations

in which the defendants

mentioned the targets.

Yes, Excellency.

Mistaking me for a possible accomplice,

these men were in a boisterous

and a boastful mood.

They laughed as they told me

how they machine-gunned children

at play in a schoolyard,

and how they destroyed

hospital after hospital

and temple after temple.

The court can well imagine

how contemptible I felt

having these monsters share my table,

even if it was only for the purpose of

detaining them until Japanese troops arrived.

Brutality! Brutality! Brutality!

He is a liar. We said we hit our targets, but

they weren't hospitals, temples or schools.

They were oil-storage centres,

airports and shipyards.

That's what we hit. That's what we told him.

Excellencies, my son was present at all times.

He will gladly corroborate my statements

if Your Excellencies think it is necessary.

The court has no cause

to suspect the witness of perjury.

You may step down.

Hey, just a minute here.

We got a right to cross-examine...

Get that liar back.

Work on that guy. Break him down.

Our law does not permit cross-examination,

unless the court suspects

the witness did not tell the truth.

- But the witness...

- Look, look. What's the use?

This is a lynching.

General Ito Mitsubi.

I affirm that I will speak the truth,

adding nothing and concealing nothing.

Your name and rank?

Ito Mitsubi,

general in command of military intelligence.

Following the bombings,

did your department photograph

the result of the attacks

on Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka?

It did.

Specifically, did you prepare

motion pictures showing civilian casualties?

- Yes, Excellency.

- Are you ready to display them to the court?

Yes, Excellency.

(speaks Japanese)

This is where the American bombs fell

in Mizu Street in Yokohama.

The court will notice the wreckage of the

Daijingu shrine and many civilian casualties.

Here, you see the result of bombing

and machine-gunning in Nagoya.

- That's not a real air raid.

- Be still.

800 civilian casualties,

and the Buddhist temple of Eihoji destroyed.

Those pictures were made

in an air-raid drill before Japan was at war.

- You know. We were there.

- I wasn't there.

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