Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, continued fighting for 29 years after World War II ended. He was stationed on Lubang Island in 1944, and remained there for decades surviving on wild food and ...

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 ...

I always felt that Hiroo Onoda’s story, having spanned almost 30 years of fever dreams in the jungle, was best suited for literature, not cinema — which is why I chose to tell it through a novel.

In 1974, WWII officer Hiroo Onda made international headlines ... spanning decades, to meet Onoda. What she discovers is the untold stories from her own family about this so called hero they ...

Werner Herzog’s Hiroo Onoda Animation ‘The Twilight World’ With Psyop & Sun Creature Studio Sets Early-2026 Start Date Melanie Goodfellow Tue, March 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM UTC ...

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 ...