Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

A haunting biographical drama about a soldier's decades-long isolation and psychological endurance, exploring duty, delusion, and the cost of unwavering conviction.

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.