OutlawMatsu Returns Home

In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war I found several of them who had remained in Thailand Two years later I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in OutlawMatsu Returns Home During the filming my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his vicious brother I was shocked and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene By the next morning to my relief Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother But I couldnt have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking Shôhei Imamura