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 ...

Hiroo Onoda, a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army, was deployed to Lubang island in the Philippines to fight the Allies. He refused to believe the war ended until 1974, when his ...

Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Army during World War II, is marooned on the Philippine island of Lubang for nearly 30 years and believes the war hasn't ended.