Hiroo Onoda - The holdout Japanese soldier who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered. Loyal servant of the Emperor, he kept true and faithful to his orders to never surrender and to keep ...

That had certainly been the case for the 31 Japanese soldiers stranded on the island ... been deployed in efforts to draw out Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, leader of a band of holdouts on Lubang island ...

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 ...

A film about a Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of the Philippines for 29 years after the end of World War II will be screened at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival. Hiroo Onoda ...

“It is absolutely forbidden to commit suicide out of your own free will.” When the Americans arrived in 1945 most of the Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner or committed suicide. But Onoda with 3 ...

Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda ... a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.

War hero or rogue soldier? Decades after World War 2 ... film maker says it’s time to set the record straight about Hiroo Onoda, by giving his victims a voice. Sign up now for the latest ...