New film about Onoda opens at Cannes Un Certain Regard
Cannes 2021: Onoda film opens Un Certain Regard
This week, a 3 hour long feature film about Hiroo Onoda screened at Cannes. As a filmmaker who has been working on a documentary about Onoda for almost 12 years now, I knew that eventually a biopic or dramatised film of his bizarre thirty year war would eventually be made. And what a fitting time for it to be released – at a time when post pandemic conspiracies sprout and mutate into the mainstream, and climate deniers who refuse to follow evidence, Onoda’s self delusions might resonate today more than ever before.
Ben Kenigsberg notes, at PandemiCannes, where “Onoda” opened the Un Certain Regard section, and where elite audiences reportedly continue to carry on as if things were normal by flouting mask rules, this portrait of a man who chose to shut out the outside world had an eerie resonance.
My greatest concern now is not that this Onoda film plays on his self delusion, but in doing so fails to highlight the costs of his warped realities, and that ultimately people of Lubang Island paid with their lives.
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