Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Biography/Drama, Belgium/Italy 2022

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Japan, 1944. 22-year-old Hiroo Onoda, trained for the intelligence service, discovers a philosophy that goes against the official line: no suicide, stay alive no matter what, the mission is more important than anything else. He is sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines, where the Americans are about to land. His mission is to fight a guerrilla war until the Japanese troops return. The empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10,000 days later.
167 min
HD
FSK 12
Audio language:
Japanese
Subtitles:
German

Awards

César 2022 Best Original Screenplay
Prix Louis-Delluc 2021

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Director:

Arthur Harari

Cast:

Kanji Tsuda (Old Onoda)

Yuya Endo (Young Onoda)

Tetsuya Chiba (Old Kozuka)

Yuya Matsuura (Young Kozuka)

Shinsuke Kato (Shimada)

Kai Inowaki (Akatsu)

Angeli Bayani (Iniez)

Taiga Nakano (Tourist)

Original language:

Japanese

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 12

Audio language:

Japanese

Subtitles:

German