>>5159He was obsessed with turning Japan into its pre-WW2 self at a time where too much of the Japanese population had become too demoralized by their loss in it and the eventual American occupation. He was a more extreme equivalent of 2016's alt-right personalities, but he actually did fedpost IRL instead of just sperging about it anonymously on imageboards, and even if his coup attempt failed, you can still respect him for doing something he'd always believed in and died doing it. But Western leftists both contemporary and modern ones never attacked him too much because he was bisexual and even did tons of obviously gay themed photoshoots, afraid that commenting on him too harshly would reflect terribly on modern faggots.
As a writer, occasional actor and director, he was a very good one.