Movie
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2021-07-21
- Runtime
- 167 min
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure, War, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bathysphere Productions, To Be Continued, Ascent Film, Chipangu, Frakas Productions, Pandora Film, Anti-Archive, ARTE France Cinéma, RAI Cinema, Proximus, The Asahi Shimbun, Lotus Production
- Country
- France, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Cambodia
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Yuya Endo as Young Onoda
- Kanji Tsuda as Old Onoda
- Yuya Matsuura as Young Kozuka
- Tetsuya Chiba as Old Kozuka
- Shinsuke Kato as Shimada
- Kai Inowaki as Akatsu
- Issey Ogata as Major Taniguchi
- Taiga Nakano as Tourist
- Nobuhiro Suwa as Onoda's Father
- Mutsuo Yoshioka as Captain Hayakawa
- Tomomitsu Adachi as Second Kuroda
- Kyusaku Shimada as Lieutenant Suehiro
Crew
- Arthur Harari - Director
- Arthur Harari - Writer
- Vincent Poymiro - Writer
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