Cinema: Arthur Harari releases "Onoda, 10,000 nights in the jungle"
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Hirō Onoda, a Japanese soldier sent on a mission to an island in the Philippines, will take 20 years to surrender after the end of World War II.
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By: Elisabeth Lequeret Follow
6 mins
Cinema today with a film which chronicles one of the most unknown episodes of the Second World War.
“Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle” looks back on the journey of Hirō Onoda, a Japanese soldier sent on a mission to an island in the Philippines.
Isolated when the war is over, the young man will take 10,000 days, or more than 20 years, to surrender.
Fascinated by this story, the French director Arthur Harari wanted to tell it.
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