昭和７年、来日したチャップリンは犬養首相と会談を予定していた。しかし当日、青年将校たちが首相官邸を襲撃、首相の命を奪った。五・一五事件である。喜劇王が見たのは首相の命までも奪いながら軍国主義へ進む日本の姿だった。軍を制御できずに戦争への道を開いた公爵宰相・近衛文麿、精神主義で日本を染め上げた軍人宰相・東条英機、講和独立を果たしたワンマン宰相・吉田茂、安保改定に政治生命をかけた岸信介。激動の物語。
In 1932, Chaplin arrived in Japan and was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Inukai. On the day of the meeting, however, young officers stormed the prime minister's official residence and took his life. It was the May 15 Incident. The king of comedy saw a Japan that was moving toward militarism by taking the life of the prime minister. The story includes Fumimaro Konoe, the duke prime minister who lost control of the military and paved the way for war; Hideki Tojo, the military prime minister who dyed Japan with his mentalism; Shigeru Yoshida, the one-man prime minister who achieved peace and independence; and Nobusuke Kishi, who put his political life on the line for the Security Treaty revision.
