Onoda – 10.000 nights in the jungle
Original Title:
Onoda – 10.000 nuits dans la jungle
Direction:
Arthur Harari
Vendor:
Countries:
France/Japan/Germany/Belgium/Italy/Cambodia
Duration:
165′
Cast:
Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yūya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba, Shinsuke Katō, Kai Inowaki, Issey Ogata, Taiga Nakano, Nobuhiro Suwa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Tomomitsu Adachi, Kyusaku Shimada, Angeli Bayani, Jemuel Cedrick Satumba
Event: 74. Festival di Cannes
Section: Un Certain Regard – Official Competition – Film d’Ouverture
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, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later.
