Meddling between the line of a gross-out comedy or a messed-up war film , ENAMO is a weirdly tantalizing documentary that is just to good to be true. In this film, we follow Okuzaki, a psychotic man who was previously jailed for murdering his fellow veteran and trying to hit the the Emperor of Japan for failing his fellow Japanese during the war. In a period of five years, he tries to solve the mysterious deaths of two low ranking officials and a General during his stay in Papua New Guinea. By then everything starts to go absurd. Apparently a concoction of desperation, hunger, hatred, disillusionment and pure delusion happened causing the mysterious death, all of which slowly revealed by each of the guilty veterans in pure gory detail as Okuzaki (tropes and all) muscles them for the truth. All of which recorded in a 'matter- of- fact' Cinema-Verite styling of Hara.

Towards the end, the title itself come full circle. This veterans (including Okuzaki) is here with the truth that they all had been masking all this time due to the fact that they themselves cannot fathom the mistakes they did. They had became the emperor parading in his make-belief clothing. A true must watch for anyone who wants to understand the hardships and after-effects of war. [5/5]

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On was one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever watched. Okuzaki and his wife endured so much over the 5 years, so much pain and emotional suffering to track down the truth. To search for the truth behind what really happened to the soldiers that were in Okuzaki's unit relied on so much of their passion and commitment..I really admire that. Okuzaki along with Kazuo - the amazing director behind this film track down officers one by one...using whatever/appearing however necessary to get within the walls of questioning...completely deceiving most of the time. Each officer who was under Hirohito's power was to explain how the two soldiers died...any form of resistance resulted in abuse verbally and even physically. When the cause was mentioned and when I discovered how the bodies were processed - - I was like ugh!! Who does that?? And the most amazing yet bothersome conclusion I came to in of all this is that I just absorbed Okuzaki's true life experience...a very harsh, painsaking true realism.

When this strange documentary begins, the viewer is left very confused because the context for what is occurring is missing. This is an odd way of doing this film, but so be it. After a while, you learn that Kenzo Okuzaki is angry--angry at the emperor and others...but why? Then, you slowly learn that it's about some atrocities that occurred in New Guinea during WWII. And, eventually you learn the story-- several Japanese soldiers were executed on trumped up charges and Okuzaki thinks it was to provide meat to the rest of the starving soldiers in his regiment! Yet, in the Japanese push to bury the past horrors of the regime, no one is sure what happened and the dogged Okuzaki is determined to track down all the surviving folks who can substantiate what happened and MAKE them talk. If that means beating the snot out of them or publicly shaming them, so be it-- as Okuzaki doesn't seem to care what might happen to him in the process! Okuzaki isn't alone in his quest, as a couple family members of the executed men accompany him. Additionally, a camera crew stands there and refuses to get involved when Okuzaki attacks folks or is attacked in turn! What's next? See the film.

This is an odd sort of film--sort of guerrilla style with Okuzaki and his friends surprising the folks that they want to question, as they just showed up and the film crew started filming! Normally, I would feel sorry for anyone who is set upon by a film crew like this, but the folks WERE war criminals! An interesting film and one that attempts to force the Japanese to finally acknowledge SOME of the WWII war crimes--so it is a very important film for fans of documentaries. But, its style is difficult to follow for some viewers, it's a bit overlong (and loses some of its punch because of this) and a prologue explaining everything would have been appreciated.