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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

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is a 2021 adventure drama film directed by Arthur Harari and written by the director and Vincent Poymiro, with the collaboration of Bernard Cendron, freely inspired by the life of Hiroo Onoda. It is an international co-production between France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Cambodia.

The film stars Yuya Endo as Onoda, a Japanese soldier who refused to believe that World War II had ended and continued to fight on a remote Philippine island until 1974. It is particularly inspired by Cendron and Grard Chenu's 1974 biography 'Onoda, seul en guerre dans la jungle' and on Cendron's archives and Harari's conversations with him. It is not based on Onoda's own memoirs, and Harari considers the film fiction inspired by history rather than a biographical film.

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Release



The film opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July 2021.

It was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Third Window Films on 15 April 2022.

Critical reception



On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 'Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle' does not have an approval rating or consensus yet, based on four reviews.

On RogerEbert.com, Ben Kenigsburg writes: "Technically, "Onoda"... is a biopic, but it never plays like one. This austere, bleak, occasionally even darkly funny film is, at nearly three hours, more like an absurdist slow burn." James Lattimer, writing for 'Sight and Sound', called it "...a nearly three-hour wannabe existentialist war drama intended as an exercise in the sort of big-screen immersion that has been impossible of late... [T]he film's humdrum dramatization lacks the necessary visual or narrative finesse to keep viewers absorbed."

Accolades



The film won the Prix Louis-Delluc for 2021. At the 11th Magritte Awards, it received a nomination in the category of Best Foreign Film in Coproduction.

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