The true story of a soldier who is unaware of the end of the war became one of the most extraordinary anti-war films of 2021. We are talking about Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle by Arthur Harari, which enjoys an extremely positive rating of 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
As our sister site SensaCine notes, only a few people saw the film in the cinema (in Spain only about 1,400 people). But you can stream it at any time, even in Germany.
Catch up on one of the best war films on stream: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
It tells the astonishingly true story of the soldier Hiro Onoda (Yuya Endo), who almost 30 years after the end of the Second World War still had no idea that Japan had surrendered. In 1944, he was sent to the Philippine island of Lubang to stop American troops. When he received news of the end of the war, he suspected an Allied ambush – and remained in the jungle for another 10,000 days and nights, always on guard against the enemy who never came.
Even Werner Herzog found the subject fascinating, but he did not devote a documentary to it, but wrote a celebrated book on the subject, Das Dämmern der Welt *. And Filmstarts is also enthusiastic about the almost three-hour war film epic. The conclusion states:
Arthur Harari uses the incredible biography of soldier Onoda as the starting point for an original anti-war film. Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle deconstructs the warrior hero myth as a state of blind obedience, until all sense of time, space and fellow human beings is lost.
The French filmmaker Harari is now also known as the author of the Oscar-winning screenplay for Anatomy of a Case.
Where can you stream the war film Onoda?
Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle is available as part of the streaming flat rate at filmfriend, but is also available to rent and buy from Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play. The film is available in Japanese with German subtitles.
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