Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) on Netflix
Japan, 1944. Hiroo Onoda, twenty-two, is sent to Lubang, an island in the Philippines where American forces are about to land. He is to wage guerrilla war until Japanese troops return.
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Plot summary
In 1944, Hiroo Onoda is twenty-two years old and trained for intelligence work. He arrives at a set of beliefs that go against the official line: a man should not take his own life, should stay alive whatever happens, and should put the mission above everything else. He is posted to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where American forces are about to land, and his task there is to keep fighting a guerrilla war until Japanese troops come back.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is inspired by Hiroo Onoda, played by Yuya Endo, a Japanese soldier who refused to believe that World War II had ended and kept fighting on a remote Philippine island until 1974.
