Hara’s unforgettable subject and collaborator is Kenzo Okuzaki—a former soldier, convicted murderer, and defiantly anti-establishment agitator—who has made it his life’s mission to expose the crimes committed by Japanese officers against their own men while stationed in New Guinea. Okuzaki resorts to extreme measures in his crusade to find out the truth about what happened to two soldiers murdered by their commanders, what emerges is at once a shocking piece of investigative journalism, a courageous condemnation of militarism and blind obedience, and a portrait of a man driven by a raw fury bordering on madness.

(Kazuo Hara, Japan, Japanese W/ Eng Subs, 122min, 1987)