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Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Name: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Released: 2021
Duration: 165 min
Cast: Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda, Yūya Matsuura, Tetsuya Chiba, Shinsuke Kato

Taste attributes: adventuredramawarunsavouryheavyrealisticlineargrittybig & variedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardy

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Boxlist takeA grounded, serious war film: sweeping and emotional. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

7.6 /10

TMDB · 25 votes

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Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it
Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it

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Realism: True to life, where this profile leans balanced realism
Setting / scale: Big / varied, where this profile leans small / confined

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Synopsis

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hirō 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.

Synopsis: TMDB