Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle(2021)

movie - first aired/released 2021-07-21 - 167 min - audience 7.1

Drama, Adventure, War, History

Directed by Arthur Harari

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.