2021 · war · drama · survival
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Directed by Arthur Harari2h 47m2021
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.
Our read: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded war · drama · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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