Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

This is one of my favorite documentaries...
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is a 1987 documentary from Kazuo Hara about 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo. He was a veteran of the Japanese occupation of  New Guinea during  World War II who gained notoriety by slingshoting ball-bearings  at Emperor Showa protesting  the ruler's war crimes. The documentary follows Okusaki as he sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives... Things get violent quickly but he ends up getting the information he wants.

You may need to play with the closed captioning on the video - they seem to be in Spanish so you'll need to set the Translate caption to your desired language...
 

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