Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (French: Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle) is a 2021 French biographical drama film directed by Arthur Harari. The film stars Yuya Endo as Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who refused to believe that World War II had ended and continued to fight on a remote Philippine island until 1974.[1]

Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Festival poster
Directed byArthur Harari
Written byArthur Harari and Vincent Poymiro
Produced byNicolas Anthomé
StarringTetsuya Chiba
Production
companies
Ascent Film, Chipangu, Frakas Productions, Pandora Film Produktion, Anti-Archive, Arte-France Cinema, RAI Cinema, Proximus
Distributed byLe Pacte
Release date
  • 7 July 2021 (2021-07-07) (Cannes)
CountryFrance
LanguageJapanese

Cast

Release

The film opened the Un Certain Regard section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July 2021.[2][3]

Critical reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle does not have an approval rating or consensus yet based on 4 reviews.[4]

On RogerEbert.com, Ben Kenigsburg writes: "Technically, "Onoda"... is a biopic, but it never plays like one. This austere, bleak, occasionally even darkly funny film is, at nearly three hours, more like an absurdist slow burn."[5] James Lattimer, of BFI, called it "...a nearly three-hour wannabe existentialist war drama intended as an exercise in the sort of big-screen immersion that has been impossible of late.... [T]he film’s humdrum dramatization lacks the necessary visual or narrative finesse to keep viewers absorbed."[6]

References
  1. "Onoda, 10 000 Nights in the Jungle". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  2. "Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle by Arthur Harari Opening Un Certain Regard 2021". Festival de Cannes 2021. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. Ramachandran, Naman (14 June 2021). "Cannes: 'Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle' to Open Un Certain Regard Section". Variety. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. "Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  5. Kenigsberg, Ben. "Cannes 2021: Onoda, Everything Went Fine, Between Two Worlds, The Velvet Underground | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert". Roger Ebert (dot) com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. Lattimer, James (9 July 2021). "Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle review". BFI. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
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