Werner Herzog has confirmed he is working on an animated feature adaptation of his 2021 novel The Twilight World about real-life Japanese solider Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender for some 30 ...

Director Arthur Harari has taken “bold steps” by going beyond the theme of “loyalty” in his film about Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who surrendered nearly 30 years after Japan’s ...

Onoda, who died aged 91 in Tokyo in 2014, also inspired the 2021 live-action drama Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, directed and written by France’s Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall co-writer ...