Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
MovieTitle | Onoda |
User score | 7.1 |
Release date | Jul 21, 2021 |
Genre | Drama, Adventure, War, History |
Director | Arthur Harari |
Production country | Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan |
Production companies | 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 |
Budget | $4,700,000 |
Run time | 167 min. |
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.