It arrived in Spanish cinemas in 2022, but went completely unnoticed. It’s about ‘Onoda, 10,000 nights in the jungle‘, a crude Japanese war drama that only brought 1,408 people to the theaters of our country, raising just under 8,000 euros. A total financial disaster, but one that has been vindicated over the months. At the moment It boasts an impressive 97% on Rotten Tomatoesbased on 35 enthusiastic reviews.

Not much else was achieved globally: just $262,276, despite having been seen in Cannes. Now you can recover it thanks to Filmin, which brings us this film that is not very suitable for the times of rapid consumption in which we are immersed: it lasts almost three hours and its pace is far from that of a frenetic action film with commandos in the jungle, but rather focuses on the devastating human effects caused by war conflicts.

The story takes us to the end of 1944, when Japan is losing the war. A young Japanese army soldier is sent to an island in the Philippines just before the American landing, with the mission of preventing it with the help of other companions. But when they receive the news of the end of the war, he feels that the announcement is actually a trap by the allies, and decides to stay in the jungle for 10,000 more nights.

All of this with a slow and reflective rhythm that reinforces the determination of the protagonist, and which is co-written by the screenwriter of ‘Anatomy of a Fall’. The amazing thing about it all is that the story is real (a Japanese Intelligence officer spent 29 years in the Philippines until he was formally relieved by a former army colleague) and in fact has already inspired another work of fiction, Werner Herzog’s novel ‘The Twilight’. of the world’. An analysis of the blind obedience imposed by the army and How military discipline radicalizes our behavior until we erase all traces of logic from our decisions.

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