The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On luminously introduces the very controversial yet intriguing central figure Kenzo Okuzaki, a political agitator and Pacific War veteran. The documentary observes him relentlessly campaigning to unearth a conceivable war crime, the suspicious death of two soldiers, privates Tetsunosuke Yoshizawa and Jinpei Nomura.
Okuzaki almost obsessively implicates Emperor Shōwa possessing all accountability for war-inflicted trauma and noisily makes his arguments publicly. His prior activities have inevitably seen him become a somewhat infamous figure with the police, proudly carrying his previous incarcerations for violence with a semblance of honour.
Director Kazuo Hara channels what Okuzaki perceives as society's conformity together with its nation-wide amnesia over injustices during the war, and the film crew records him travelling…