PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Arthur Harari, director of the film Onoda.
The Un Certain Regard opening film, Onoda, is a story about resilience, resistance and the power of imagination as the most powerful force in human life. The film is described by its director, Arthur Harari as coming from a story he heard from his father when he was looking for an adventure film to shoot. The protagonist wants to believe in something, he doesn’t want to accept the world as it is. Onoda is the result of a fruitful co-production between many countries including Italy.
Onoda: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, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later.
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