Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
overview : 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.
Release Date : Jul 21, 2021
Runtime : 2h 47m
Genre : Drama Adventure War History
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
Countries : Belgium, Cambodia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan
Keywords : biography