Tags
Language
Tags
<<
May 2025
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
27 28 29 30 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
    Attention❗ To save your time, in order to download anything on this site, you must be registered 👉 HERE. If you do not have a registration yet, it is better to do it right away. ✌

    ( • )( • ) ( ͡⚆ ͜ʖ ͡⚆ ) (‿ˠ‿)
    SpicyMags.xyz
    1. Home
    2. Movies
    3. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    Posted By: Someonelse
    Date: 24 Apr 2013 10:04:00
    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988)
    DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 02:01:06 | 3,27 Gb
    Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
    Genre: Documentary, War | 8 wins | Japan

    Director: Kazuo Hara

    For those despairing over the docile nature of today's documentaries, here's a nasty little piece of work that's both shocking and heroic in its audacity. Japanese citizen and World War II veteran Kenzo Okuzaki, who was in his mid-60s during filming, tracks down several former military officers. Through force of will and sheer badgering he manages to lure bits of truth out of rumors of wartime atrocities. Most of these revolve around the act of slaying and cannibalizing other soldiers, due to the severe lack of food in Japan's wartime New Guinea campaign. Okuzaki is not above physical violence and doesn't fear the authorities; truth is all that matters to him. Kazuo Hara directs from the sidelines, without asking any questions or intruding, allowing Okuzaki to run the show. The late, great Shohei Imamura was a producer. Okuzaki passed away in 2005.

    IMDB
    Wikipedia

    Original title - Yuki Yukite shingun

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    Kazuo Hara ("Sayonara CP"/"Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974"/"A Dedicated Life") directs one of the strangest and most unique war documentaries, that's not to be missed. It's meant to offend the Japanese establishment for their silence over Emperor Hirohito's failure to accept responsibility for the war, and does so with relish. It follows Hara's dictum for making documentaries: "A documentary should explore things that people don't want explored, bring things out of the closet, to examine why people want to hide certain things." Hara tells the bizarre story of the 62-year-old Kenzo Okuzaki, an eccentric World War II veteran (one of only 30 survivors of a thousand-strong regiment in New Guinea) who lives in Kobe with his loyal wife and is obsessed as a political activist to avenge the atrocities of Japan during the war (which includes the killing of their own soldiers to partake in cannibalism) and lay the blame on Emperor Hirohito and others in command of his war for conducting such an unjust war and never admitting their responsibility for so many casualities–even criminally fighting on when they knew the war was already lost.

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    Hara focuses on the ongoing outlaw activities of the animated Okuzaki, in the early 1980s, without digging too much into the past and without telling us hardly anything about his subject's personal life and making no judgment on his sanity, so by the film's end he's still an unknown figure. Okuzaki was stationed in occupied New Guinea during the war and survived only because he was hospitalized and treated by the Americans. We learn that though the war has been over for a long time he still wants to expose those responsible for the war and to show its horrors so Japan will not participate in future wars. He's a violent and controlling man refusing to let go of the past and live in the present, who is upset that no one else in the country in a position of authority seems as concerned with these violations against God as he is and in his rage attacks on camera some of those he interviews without the camera crew stopping him. Okuzaki 's credo is "If the result is good, violence is justified." Hara's credo is keep the cameras rolling, no matter what.

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    In 1969 Okuzaki made a name for himself by slinging four pachinko marbles at Emperor Hirohito in front of the Imperial Palace. Okuzaki was imprisoned in Kobe for 13 years and 9 months for plotting to assassinate a former Prime Minister, the sling shot act and distributing pornographic pictures of the Emperor outside a Tokyo department store.

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    Okuzaki's sanity can be questioned by his unrelenting and unorthodox attempts to get at the truth by confronting those survivors of New Guinea with intense grilling, vilification, threats and even by force, if necessary. The film's gist has Okuzaki pay surprise visits to his fellow New Guinea veterans responsible for the atrocities and in several confrontations things get violent. These encounters, at last, reveal that unpopular soldiers of low rank were eaten by the starving high ranking soldiers because the natives were too fast to catch and the soldier's deaths were covered-up.

    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]

    By the film's end the viewer might think everyone is crazy. As nutty as Okuzaki appears to be, he seems saner to me than the so-called responsible people who lost their way during the war and became uncivilized.

    It's an amazing film that has the power to capture the zeal of its violent pacifist subject (world peace must be achieved by any means possible) and tell the world a story it believes it needs to hear, even at this late date, and does so in an uncompromising way even if it's controversial and upsetting to many who want to forget about the dark past.
    Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]


    Many Thanks to Original uploader.

    Welcome to My Blog!

    If you want to download it, but found out that links are dead,
    just leave a comment or PM me!

    My Reposted News

    No More Mirrors.


    pass: www.AvaxHome.ru
    Download full movie The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1988) [ReUp]
    Subtitles (from opensubtitles.org)
    UPWARDS