Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

20212h 47min

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

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Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

Released
July 21, 2021
Runtime
2h 47min
Director
Arthur Harari
Budget
$4,700,000
Genre
DramaAdventureWarHistory
Language
Japanese
Production
Bathysphere Productions, Pandora Film, Frakas Productions, Ascent Film, To Be Continued, Chipangu, Anti-Archive, ARTE France Cinéma, RAI Cinema, Proximus, ARTE, Canal+, Ciné+, Canal+ International, BLAM, HAKO, Takimoto & Associates, The Asahi Shimbun, Fly Free Entertainment
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