The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (ゆきゆきて、神軍)

A Shisso Production

To kill Ex-Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka

Kobe City, Hyogo

Kenzo Okuzaki, 62

Shizumi, 64, his wife

Yabu, Hyogo

This is the wedding of Mr. Otagaki and Miss Sano.

My name is Okuzaki and I'm delighted to act as go-between.

Mr. Otagaki and Miss Sano, congratulations.

After graduating from Kobe University...

The groom fought the Establishment...

He was subsequently arrested.

I, the go-between, killed a broker...

shot a sling at Emperor Hirohito...

then scattered obscene flyers denouncing him.

I served 13 years and 9 months in solitary confinement.

Three convictions for accounts of murder, assault, and obscenity.

This match was made possible because the groom and I...

both fought against the Establishment.

This is a rare wedding.

For many of you, this country might mean a lot, but...

judging from my experience,

not only Japan but any other countries...

Nation is a wall between men.

It's a big wall that prevents us from joining together.

I also consider family a wall.

It isolates human beings from each other and cuts ties.

In other words, it's against the divine law.

So I intend to continue attacking it.

Happy wedding!

CONVICTIONS

Murder of a real estate broker.

10 years at hard labor.

Shooting of a sling at the Emperor in the palace.

1 year and 6 months at hard labor

Scattering flyers with pornographic images of the Emperor

1 year and 2 months at hard labor

Plotting to murder the former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka

Not indicted

THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON

- Hyogo Police Station. - Kashimoto chief, please.

Speaking.

- This is Okuzaki calling. - Oh, hello.

Thanks for calling again. I was out.

Thank you for your visit.

I dropped by the other day, but you were sick?

I haven't recovered yet.

And your wife had a cold, too.

She still does.

Take care.

I'm thinking of going to Tokyo.

For what?

Chief of Surveillance, Hyogo police

Taking medicine?

Are you allergic?

No medicine for me. It's tough.

Well... am I clear to go?

You're not planning to drive that van with a billboard?

Not in Tokyo. Take a train.

I'll do what I have to do.

And you do what you have to do.

- Is your van ready to go? - Yes.

We'll accompany you halfway.

You would've found out one way or the other.

You wouldn't like that.

I'm glad you called.

I had to judge as a chief.

Fukaya City, Saitama

Excuse me.

Mr. Kichitaro Yamada's room?

Room 13?

Ex-Sergeant Kichitaro Yamada, The 36th Regiment

You don't look well.

- When will you be released? - In three weeks.

I must stay in bed for at least 10 days.

Got an operation.

The last one?

They sewed me up.

If it's not infected.

This is the 6th time.

No more operations?

If nothing happens.

I'm writing to the Indonesian president...

requesting permission to visit West New Guinea.

He can't read Japanese, so...

I had it translated into Indonesian.

When you get better...

unless the doctor stops you...

we should go if your physical condition allows you to.

It's an important gesture that we go there for a memorial service...

despite our financial and physical difficulties.

When I was in prison, I heard you got hospitalized.

I wrote to you saying that it was a divine punishment.

What I really meant was...

...how shall I say?

I think it was the result of your post-war life.

You deserved hospitalization.

You may be a perfectly good citizen.

But look at the state you're in.

People like you who experienced the war the way you did...

shall not be allowed to live in peace like nothing happened.

For me, that is unforgivable.

April 29, 1982 Emperor's Birthday

I, Kenzo Okuzaki, am conducting a memorial service here...

to console the souls of the many victims who perished...

for the Emperor Hirohito during the Pacific War.

Officers!

The police commissioners' henchmen!

Under the name of law, you can destroy my wagon...

or arrest me at your own accord.

Now...

Can you hear me?

Kenzo Okuzaki is here on the Emperor's Birthday...

to console the countless souls who were victimized by...

the 81 year old Hirohito and his associates!

I'm conducting a memorial service for their souls.

I belonged to the 36th Regiment.

In New Guinea, almost all of us starved to death.

What kind of man is a great man?

The rich? The emperor?

The president? The pope?

By my interpretation...

A man who observes God's law, not man's law,

and acts honorably and does the right thing...

without fear of being punished.

That's what I call a great man.

A police officer is showing me a note.

They're forcing me to obey their law.

I may be powerless, but I believe with an absolute conviction...

that I couldn't be more right than any officers and officials.

All so called officials, the police officers and the judges...

obey Communist laws...

if Japan is ruled by the communists.

The police officers and the judges all work for money.

I don't get paid for doing this, like those right wing people.

Not a penny.

Sometimes people offered. But I've never asked.

They just want to talk.

We'll be back soon. So please stop.

See you.

Bar Association

I've suffered from the law more than anybody else.

The one who took the most advantage among Japanese...

Makoto Endo A chief lawyer in 'Teigin Incident'

is the Emperor Hirohito...

who is a symbol of ignorance, irresponsibility, and impossibility.

I shot 4 lead pellets at the Emperor with a sling,

scattered pornographic flyers with images of the Emperor...

in Ginza, Shibuya, and Shinjuku.

I was indicted in both cases.

There were two judges and eight prosecutors involved.

I pissed and spat on them. Then I called them names.

The building next door...

is the Tokyo Supreme Court.

There I yelled at the judge with handcuffs on,

"you don't deserve to sit in the chair."

"Get down on your knees!"

I was removed from the court. Then in the afternoon...

the trial resumed.

This time I said...

"Dig a hole and bury yourself!"

I spent 13 years and 9 months in jail.

I'm not afraid.

I take responsibility. I want the chief.

Says who?

Get permission.

No camera!

No camera!

Okuzaki visits Kobe Prison to take a measurement for a cell...

so he can build it in his own house.

- We're not threatening you. - I think you are!

You stay behind.

Keep out!

Go away!

Kobe Prison

Make way!

You want to stop me?

I dare you to do something.

Have anything to say?

Well, do you?

I dare you to do something.

You guys are robots! You aren't human!

None of you are! Just like the Emperor Hirohito!

You just take orders and obey.

Go ahead and do something. I dare you.

Dogs.

If you're human, get angry. You can't, can you?

Get out of there!

Get out! Damn you!

Get out!

Etajima, Hiroshima

I'm Kenzo Okuzaki.

Mr. Shimamoto and I were friends in New Guinea.

We were the same rank, him and me.

He died in West New Guinea. A place called Arso.

Iseko Shimamoto, 77

We were in the same unit.

So we dug a hole and buried his body.

We picked green papayas and placed them on his grave.

And we held a ceremony.