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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
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Original name: Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Cambodia
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo 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 guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after Onoda 10.000 days later.
Style:
stylized, weird
Plot:
japanese soldier, world war two, hunting, wilderness survival, river, moon landing, jungle adventure, sea, jungle, fight, death, illness, beach, fire, tourist, gunfight, helicopter, boat, radio, rain, rainstorm, newspaper, full moon, flashback, photograph ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 1940s, year 1973, year 1950, year 1969, year 1944
Place:
the philippines
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and captivating films with plots about world war two, military, soldier, explosion, war, battles and death mostly in Drama, War and Adventure genres. Some movies like Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle: Merrill's Marauders (1962), Oba: The Last Samurai (2011), Da 5 Bloods (2020), Cry of Battle (1963), Lillian (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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