Suspected Japanese war criminals are imprisoned at Stanley prison, Hong Kong.

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.

Notes

The Kempeitai were an Imperial Japanese Army gendarmerie with responsibilities for military policing, internal security and (often political) justice. During the war they quickly developed a reputation for brutality and were regarded by the Allies in much the same vein as the Nazis' Gestapo secret police.

The dopesheet names the following individuals:

Colonel Tokunaga, as above.

Dr Saito, as above.

Sergeant Matsuda, as above.

Lieutenant-Colonel Kawaguchi, colonel of artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel Kanazawa, Kempeitai ('Gestapo' on the dopesheet).

Company Sergeant Majors Hayashi (Kempeitai), and Yokohama (Kempeitai interpreter).

Lieutenant Tanaka, prison camp commandant.

Warrant Officer Yaguchi, Kempeitai.

Nimuri [sic, possibly Nimura (?)], Hasegawa, and Inouye, interpreters.

Yamaguchi, 'judicial court staff'.

Stanley jail was a modern, pre-war civil jail and was used by the Japanese as an internment camp. The dopesheet gives its capacity as around 5,000.