Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
French theatrical release poster
FrenchOnoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Directed byArthur Harari
Written by
  • Arthur Harari
  • Vincent Poymiro
  • Bernard Cendron (collaboration)
Produced byNicolas Anthomé
Starring
CinematographyTom Harari
Edited byLaurent Sénéchal
Music by
  • Sebastiano De Gennaro
  • Enrico Gabrielli
  • Andrea Poggio
  • Gak Sato
  • Olivier Marguerit
Production
companies
  • Bathysphere
  • TBC
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 7 July 2021 (2021-07-07) (Cannes)[6]
  • 21 July 2021 (2021-07-21) (France)[1]
  • 11 August 2021 (2021-08-11) (Belgium)[3]
  • 8 October 2021 (2021-10-08) (Japan)[4]
  • 2 June 2022 (2022-06-02) (Germany)[7]
Running time
167 minutes[1][5][8]
Countries
  • France
  • Japan
  • Germany
  • Belgium
  • Italy
  • Cambodia[1][2][5]
LanguageJapanese[9][8][10]
Box office$193,000[11]–$261,000[12] (France)

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle[9] (Japanese: ONODA 一万夜を越えて, Hepburn: Onoda: Ichiman'ya o Koete, lit."Onoda: Over ten thousand nights",[4] French: Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle)[1] is a 2021 adventure drama film directed by Arthur Harari and written by the director and Vincent Poymiro, with the collaboration of Bernard Cendron, freely inspired by the life of Hiroo Onoda.[2] It is an international co-production between France, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Cambodia.[1][2][5]

The film stars Yuya Endo as 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.[13] It is particularly inspired by Cendron and Gérard Chenu's 1974 biography Onoda, seul en guerre dans la jungle and on Cendron's archives and Harari's conversations with him. It is not based on Onoda's own memoirs, and Harari considers the film fiction inspired by history rather than a biographical film.[2]

Cast[edit]

Release[edit]

The film opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 7 July 2021.[14][15]

It was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Third Window Films on 15 April 2022.[9][10]

Critical reception[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 30 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The website's consensus reads: "With absorbing patience and palpable empathy, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle finds poignant drama in one real-life soldier's stubborn pursuit of honor."[16] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[17]

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."[18] James Lattimer, writing for Sight and Sound, 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."[19]

Accolades[edit]

The film won the Prix Louis-Delluc for 2021.[20] At the 11th Magritte Awards, it received a nomination in the category of Best Foreign Film in Coproduction.[21]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Onoda". Le Pacte. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Onoda: 10 000 Nights in the Junglepress kit" (PDF). Le Pacte. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Films - Onoda". Imagine Film Distribution. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "ONODA 一万夜を越えて". Elephant House. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d "— Onoda – 10.000 Nächte im Dschungel". Rapid Eye Movies. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. ^ "74e Festival international du Film de Cannes screenings guide" (PDF). Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  7. ^ "rapideyemovies.de". Rapid Eye Movies. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Kinostart 02.06.2022
  8. ^ a b "Onoda: 10000 Nights In The Jungle". BBFC. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  9. ^ a b c "ONODA: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle". Third Window Films. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b "10 000 Nights in the Jungle de Arthur Harari (2021)". Unifrance. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Onoda: 10,000 nuits dans la jungle (2021) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 March 2022. $193,238
  12. ^ "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 March 2022. $260,782
  13. ^ "Onoda - 10 000 Nights in the Jungle (Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  14. ^ "Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle by Arthur Harari Opening Un Certain Regard 2021". Cannes Film Festival. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  15. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (14 June 2021). "Cannes: 'Onoda – 10 000 Nights In The Jungle' to Open Un Certain Regard Section". Variety. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  16. ^ "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 9 December 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  17. ^ "Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  18. ^ Kenigsberg, Ben. "Cannes 2021: Onoda, Everything Went Fine, Between Two Worlds, The Velvet Underground | Festivals & Awards". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  19. ^ Lattimer, James (9 July 2021). "Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle gets lost in the Filipino wilds". Sight and Sound. BFI. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  20. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (13 January 2022). "Onoda wins the Louis-Delluc Award". Cineuropa. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  21. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (12 January 2022). "'Madly In Life', 'Playground' lead Belgium's Magritte nominations". Screen Daily. Retrieved 5 March 2022.

External links[edit]

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