The highly immersive Onoda: 10000 Nights in the Jungle depicts the fascinating story of a soldier for whom World War Two ended decades after 1945.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

A great film, a true epic that shows the consequences of war in the most eloquent fashion through a truly impactful and quite dramatic story.

| Original Score: 7.5 | Dec 26, 2022

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle is a hallucinatory look at the horror of war that revels in the absurdity as well as the tragedy of Onoda’s thirty-year refusal to face reality.

| Dec 17, 2022

“Onoda” is an insightful portrait of fanaticism, illustrating how bad ideas can take root simply because people are naturally resistant to change.

| Dec 16, 2022

Not all of this is compelling, but the movie does convey a poignant depth of denial and disorientation.

| Dec 14, 2022

It is a moving tale of survival and perseverance and, by the way, Onoda was still packing 500 rounds of ammunition and a few hand grenades when he finally quit.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 8, 2022

a fascinating wartime tale…Arthur Harari’s classical filmmaking style brings us back to the war epics of the 50’s and 60’s and his narrative, with a run time of 167 minutes, certainly qualifies as epic.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 30, 2022

The final collapse of Onoda’s worldview is as wrenching as any of the violence across the film, reminding us that cinema, like any other ritual of belief, is an inescapably physical experience.

| Nov 22, 2022

This is essential viewing for anyone with a modicum of interest in WWII history. For the odd individuals that don’t have any interest, this is still well worth a watch because of the powerful character study at play.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 16, 2022

Arthur Hariri’s “Onoda” could have made the soldier a ridiculous figure. But the power of “Onoda” is that it instead makes him a tragic one, a man whose faith in the cause was so absolute that he went to bizarre lengths to keep the fiction alive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2022

The conflicting human interactions that shaped the commitment of the last Japanese soldier straggler of WW2. Flashbacks to his training regimen provide psychological rationales. Emotions are the most unpredictable factors. Left open is if he was a fool.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 9, 2022

Harari chooses to create a psychological portrait of his central character, using images rather than explanations of ideology to tap into Onoda’s mind-set.

| Oct 6, 2022

An exhilarating and sprawling epic.

| Oct 2, 2022

... An oddly compelling tale, sometimes poignant and occasionally comic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Along with such laudable virtues, the direction of the clement Arthur Harari has one problem for me. And it is that his film lasts three hours. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 1, 2022

Cinema with capital letters... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2022

"Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle,” which runs two hours and 45 minutes, is an achievement: a moving and multifaceted film about one man’s quixotic attempt at leading a meaningful life

| Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2022

A dream like air. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 13, 2022

Working with a modest budget, Arthur Harari has turned his story into a well-made drama of the old school. The film is somewhat overstretched, but the occasional longueurs press home the extraordinary time frame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2022

A captivating tragicomedy, a sharp-eyed study of zealotry and self-delusion, ridiculous and heartbreaking in about equal measure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2022