The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on (Yuki Yukite shingun) (1987)

< 100: Overlooked, Intriguing or Boombastic! (40 movies items)

" A fantastic documentary where we follow a Japanese WW2-veteran who tries to get his former superiors to admit the atrocities he saw them commit during the war. However the methods he uses to achieve this are so over-the-top and flamboyantly offensive that they can't be cheered on. He goes to a man's house and offends him until he starts beating the man up. He drives around in a van with offenses towards the emperor written all over it. Yet what he is trying to achieve is right. He is trying to"

Watched in 2012 (408 movies items)

"26.11 PC En hyväksy päähenkilön ajatusmaailmaa ja tekemisiä lainkaan, mutta dokumenttina elokuva on sen verran mielenkiintoinen kaikessa rohkeudessaan, ettei voi olla pitämättä. Shohei Imamuran näkeminen krediiteissä ei yllättänyt lainkaan, sillä olin jo aiemmin ajattelut tämän muistuttavan hänen elokuvia."

Katselut 2012 (128 movies items)

"22.10."

Disheartening Films and TV Series (75 movies items)

" This is one of the most profoundly unsettling films. You see an old man who assaults people and find out he's become an enraged pacifist after his comrades have been eaten by their superiors during WWII. Even as a pacifist, I seriously reconsidered the maxim 'the end justifies the means', but realized changing my ethics out of an emotional, not rational, response could be a form of military worship."

Some things I love about cinema (50 movies items)

"Documentaries can make you (or at least me) consider things no book or any other type of media could. The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons - Octave - The Rules of the Game Documentary film can capture what Renoir's character said perfectly; if I didn't see Kenzo's reasons for his assaults I doubt I would have bothered to figure out his reasons, or feel so much sympathy. The documentary will question what you feel you know about war and might make you even reconsider th"

World Films (136 movies items)

" Japanese"

30 days, 30 movies (30 movies items)

"A Movie That Changed My Opinion About Something This film will make even the most ardent pacifist question if the ends can ever justify the means. Kenzo's decision to shoot the person's son was futile, and to blindly accept his logic could be a form of military worship and reverence (what Kenzo rallies against)."

Grotesque weirdness... (61 movies items)

"A documentary about a Japanese WWII veteran who released fake gay pornography pictures about the emperor and was thrown into jail. After his release he discovers that during the war, while he was in custody for bad behaviour, his squadron located in a remote island was eaten by high-ranking officers. He finds this out by beating (or rather, trying to beat) "

Watched in 2011 (612 movies items)

"9.7.11. REWATCH DVD/MIITTI Edelleen loistavassa japanilaisessa dokumenttiklassikossa seurataan keisarivaltaa vastustavaa psykopaattia, joka ei kaihda likaisimpiakaan keinoja etsiessään taivaallista sovitusta ja rangaistusta sota-aikaisia rikoksia tehneille upseereille. Kazuo Haran eräänlaisena Sherlock Holmes -tarinana toimiva mestariteos nostaa edelleen aiheellisia kysymyksiä siitä oikeuttavatko päämäärät keinoja vai eivät, on kyse sitten vastauksien etsinnästä sota-aikaisista "

Elokuvapäiväkirja 2011 (204 movies items)

"26.12.2011 Hämmentävässä ja ajatuksia herättävässä dokumentissa japanilainen anarkisti Kenzo Okuzaki kiertää tapaamassa toisen maailmansodassa palvelleita upseereja ja sotilaita ja samalla paljastaa sodassa tapahtuneita kauheuksia. Okuzaki käyttäytyy kyseenalaisesti tavatessaan näitä sodassa rikoksia tehneitä henkilöitä. Elokuva herätti paljon ajatuksia mm. siitä oikeuttaako hyvä päämäärä kyseenalaiset metodit ja kuinka aika vaikuttaa siihen miten pahoilta rikokset tun"

Weird, weirder and weirdest documentaries (90 movies items)

" What is it about? It revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II who gained notoriety by slingshooting steel pinballs at Emperor Showa to protest against what he considered to be the ruler's war crimes. Setting out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives, he finds the truth of the past to be elusive, achieving a breakthrough only when he confronts ex-Sergeant Yamada, who grudgingly admits the occurrence and instructional"

Watched in 2011 (457 movies items)

"9.7. Edelleen yksi kaikkien aikojen parhaita dokumentteja, jossa vanha japanilaissotilas kiertää kyseenalaisella tavalla upseerejaan läpi ja onnistuu päämäärättömällä haahuilullaan jopa tuomaan esille toisen maailmansodan aikaisia hirvittävyyksiä."