Tonight on TV: 2h47 French movie scares you? Try the experience, it’s fascinating

Five years after his first feature, Diamant Noir, which revisited the detective genre, Arthur Harar changed course and signed up for Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, a war film shot in Cambodia in Japanese.

Always fascinated by the stories of Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson, the director finds the perfect material for an adventure film by discovering the incredible true story of Hiro Onoda. Unaware that his country had surrendered in 1945, this Japanese soldier continued to defend the Philippine island where he was assigned from a possible American counterattack until 1974.

Thus, Arthur Harar signs another very daring feature film with impressive skill. Story-River (it lasts 2h47), which shines in the scale of its staging and the beauty of its photography, at the crossroads of many influences. From Kenji Mizoguchi to Feux dans la Plaine de Kon Ichikawa, through the United Red Army with the works of Koji Wakamatsu or even the Filipino Lino Broca and Kurosawa. But also on the side of Western filmmakers, Monte Hellman.

epic, intense and fascinating, Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Awarded a César for Best Original Screenplay. On AlloCiné, it has an average audience rating of 4/5, as well as an average press rating of 4.4/5.

Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle By Arthur Harar with Yuya Endo, Kanji Tsuda, Yuya Matsura…

Tonight at Arte at 20:55.