Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

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Release Date

7/21/2021

Runtime

167 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$4,700,000

Revenue

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A patient, meditative portrait of a man who becomes prisoner to a mission long after the war has ended. The film unfolds with the slow inevitability of time itself, trapping you in Onoda's stubborn, tragic dedication to duty.

Mood

WistfulBleakContemplativeDefiant

Themes

SurvivalFaithIdentityIsolationWar

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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