Hiroo Onoda was 91 years old. In 1944, Onoda was sent to the small island of Lubang in the western Philippines to spy on U.S. forces in the area. Allied forces defeated the Japanese imperial army ...

"Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle" is a war epic based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda. (Dark Star Pictures) The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but ...

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But for 29 years after this announcement, an officer, Hiroo Onoda, continued to wage war on Lubang Island in the Philippines. The striking film “Onoda” dramatizes the true story of this ...

When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was deployed to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944, he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned. Onoda took the orders very ...

It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII. Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog turned 80 years old yesterday, and he's still trying news ...

Like way, way back — all the way to the Old Norse. Based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda — a Japanese soldier who spent nearly 30 years hiding in the Philippines after World War II ...

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 ...

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