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You can watch Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) for free on Kanopy.

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 guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

One soldier refuses to believe the war ended, choosing instead to live out a decades-long delusion in the Philippine jungle. This sprawling epic captures the strange, lonely cost of absolute devotion to a lost cause.

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