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

Genres: Drama, Adventure, War, History

Country: France, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Cambodia

Director: Arthur Harari

Plot: 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.

Cast: Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda, Yuya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba, Shinsuke Kato, Kai Inowaki, Issey Ogata, Taiga Nakano, Nobuhiro Suwa, Mutsuo Yoshioka

Rating: 7.1 ⭐