"You're just filming this and doing nothing to stop it?"

" . . . violence is my forte."

An aging but violent veteran looking for divine redemption beats up other veterans in order to find the truth about possible cannibalization during World War 2 in this ethically dubious, always enthralling, and completely batshit documentary that is even crazier than it sounds.

pulverises the glory of war into the finest dust

I was pretty hungry while watching this. Good thing I watched this alone

"As long as I live , I will continue to use violence by my own judgement if it brings good results to me for the sake of mankind."

That was absolutely insane. Kenzo Okuzai is a former solider, murderer and a very dangerous man who demands the truth of a pre-war crime by unexpectedly confronting the executioners in their own homes and demanding the truth with physical violence and pure aggressiveness. At times you may completely sympathize and understand Okuzai and other times he may just switch to an overly angry violent man who may or may not push things way too far for the truth. This is truly a documentary you have to see for yourself , Its equally sickening and fascinating. There are a handful of important and eye opening moments and a genuine feeling of human empathy and emotion was running through this films veins , it's really special .

not a lot i can say abt this except that okuzaki is clearly mentally broken—so is everyone he interrogates, except they’ve buried their sins beneath two tons of repression that okuzaki refuses himself. each day he must have ripped back the scab, never even letting the wound scar over. he appears to experience every step of his rabid crusade with the same emotional impact as if the war was just last week; the early scene at the grave is extraordinarily powerful.

to become a divine instrument okuzaki sacrificed himself entirely; he made himself the light that illuminates the darkness, the spade that digs up what is buried. i imagine that would drive anyone mad.

This reminded me very much of Shoah, except instead of them being behind the camera, the pursuer of truth is in front. Very moving and interesting.

An extreme depiction of one man's search for justice through his warped and twisted set of morals and the ways in which the guilty parties he interrogates create mental barriers to protect themselves from the vile nature of their crimes.

Uncompromising and undoubtedly influential documentation. The Act Of Killing would probably not exist in its current form without this.

A fascinating documentary about Kenzo Okuzaki, 62 year-old veteran of the Japanese WWII campaign in New Guinea on a continuing mission to reveal the murders and war crimes committed by military authorities against its personnel and force its elderly perpetrators to admit their guilt. Okuzaki's willingness to deceive his subjects and engage in violence against them is shocking, particularly when individuals onscreen call out the film crew for not intervening. Almost anticipating the brilliance of The Act of Killing, Kazuhiro Hara's ability to represent Okuzaki and his interviewees without judgement is astonishing. An almost singular portrait of the horrors of war, the long shadows they cast, and one man's struggle to reconcile the trauma of surviving.

Tweede helft is het gekst. Maar heel traag en te lange shots. Gekke subject

is there something I'm missing with uni films?

People unwilling to accept the moral decay of conventional society are often driven to madness. Yet their acts, which can range from the merely inconvenient to the downright immoral themselves, provoke an inevitable question: if we recognize the gross injustice in the world and do nothing, what makes us any more sane?

The greatest anti-war film of all time.

We need more Kenzo Okuzakis.