Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō 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.

Keywords

  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard
  • César 2022
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Japanese Cinema
  • Les Magritte du Cinéma
  • Only on Sooner

Actors

  • Yuya Endo
  • Kanji Tsuda
  • Yūya Matsuura
  • Tetsuya Chiba
  • Shinsuke Kato

Director

  • Arthur Harari

Action & Aventure, Drama

2h 45min

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Belgium
Cambodia
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
2021
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō 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.

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō 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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