Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) - Third Window Films Review
Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Let me ask you, "are you ready to die for the Emperor?" Regardless of your answer, one person who certainly isn't ready to die anytime soon, and in fact has been explicitly forbidden to die, is young Hiroo Onoda. (Solidly played by both Yuya Endo and Kanji Tsuda.) Hand-picked by the Japanese intelligence service in 1944, Onoda is now stationed in World War II Lubang, where he and his troops must carry out merciless Guerilla warfare and suicide missions in the name of "the Fatherland." Such is Onoda's unyielding devotion to his sinister boss, Colonel Yoshimi Taniguchi (Issey Ogata) , and his feral abhorrence of surrender, Onoda refuses to back down and cease fighting, even when the war ended almost thirty years ago. Arthur Harari's 2hr 46min slow burn ep...