#Hiroo Onoda

[uss-edsall]

I read a very interesting article recently.

Hiroo Onoda is a famous name among WWII history buff circles. He was the soldier who disappeared into the Philippine jungle at the end of the war with three other soldiers, and ended up being the last to surrender after 29 years fighting a "guerilla war" until he surrendered in 1974. For at least twenty years he fought with one other, Kinshichi Kozuka; who was killed by police in 1972.

The article was about one woman named Mia Stewart, a Filipino-Australian, who's trying to get the funding to finish a documentary she's been working on for about 20 years.

The documentary she's making is trying to shed a little more light than the fascinating "lone samurai" legend that has been built up around Onoda. It very pointedly asks one thing -- what is this "guerilla war" he was fighting for 29 years? Who were his opponents? Who was he fighting?

Onoda (and Kozuka until his death) were killing, sometimes in very gruesome ways, almost exclusively Filipino civilians. Innocent people who were just living their normal lives -- who couldn't fight back. One of their victims was Mia Stewart's great uncle, when she was barely two years old.

The article essentially asks, "war hero or serial killer?"

Those civilians he stalked and killed or stole from for nearly thirty years weren't ever asked their opinion before the Filipino president gave a blanket pardon, Onoda was welcomed home a hero, and he gained worldwide fame. Their side of the story entirely forgotten as some nebulous force he was fighting "guerilla warfare" against.

It was genuinely kind of enlightening because even I have kind of looked at the Onoda story as a, "wow that's crazy" and never really gave it more thought of "who exactly was he fighting?" I figured he was shooting at cops, if anything. But no, it was nothing as simple as that.

The documentary is not out yet (she doesn't have the funding to finish it, the article was essentially one long ad to go "and if you can donate please do so") but there is a nine minute extended trailer from two years ago

On some level I think if I'd just given it any ounce of thought I'd have gone, "who was he fighting actually?" But instead I just assumed he spent nearly thirty years fighting cops… not doing what the IJA did best and mutilating helpless civilians. But I bought the popular narrative entirely and didn't give an ounce of a think at the question of who was he fighting in this 'guerilla war.'

"Actively fighting a war… against who?" is a question that just straight up never came to my mind.

#Hiroo Onoda #World War II

[anamon-book]

毎日グラフ 1974年3月17日号 毎日新聞社 表紙＝“確認”された小野田寛郎元少尉

#毎日グラフ 1974年3月17日号 #mainichigraph #毎日グラフ #hiroo onoda #小野田寛郎 #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #book cover

[senriii]

De "El crepúsculo del mundo" de Werner Herzog.

#Hiroo Onoda

[futuristika]

[Werner Herzog] Düşsel yaşam trajedisi o kadar da trajedi değil

[Werner Herzog] Düşsel yaşam trajedisi o kadar da trajedi değil

Kısmen macera, kısmen anı kitabı ve kısmen tasnif edilemeyen bir metin denebilecek “The Twilight World”, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nın sona ermesinden otuz yıl sonra, Filipinler’in Lubang adasındaki görevine sadık kalan Japon askeri Hiroo Onoda’nın hikayesini anlatıyor. Onoda’nın kendi anılarında (“No Surrender/Teslim Olmak Yok”) tanımladığı otuz yıllık savaşı sırasında, yüzden fazla pusudan…

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#Hiroo Onoda #roman #The Twilight World #Werner Herzog

[sandboxworld]

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

“The Twilight World,” mythologizes the real-life story of a Japanese straggler after the Second World War Werner Herzog is going back to the jungle with his first novel in the twilight of his life. The Twilight World romanticizes the journey of a man who refused to surrender for over 30 years. Japanese lieutenant Hiroo Onoda who was on the wrong side of history refused to give up his post unless…

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#Hiroo Onoda #The Twilight World #Werner Herzog

[dean-boese-universe]

There is so much in this episode, the internet can barely contain it! First . Krysta discusses a recent trip to see 'Jesus Christ, Superstar' at Starlight Theater as well as discusses some of her favorite extinct animals including the Dodo, the Sabretooth Tiger and the Thylacine! Then we settle into this week's topic with a broad strokes and very miniscule overview of World War II and after that we discuss three men who were stationed at different places in the Pacific in the early 1940's and none of these men returned home until the 70's. From the quiet hidden life of Shoichi Yokoi as he simply tried to survive in hiding, to the war of Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender until his commanding officer came to the Phillipinse and ordered him to surrender, to Tetsuo Nakamura, a Taiwanese Indiginous person who served in a unit of 'Volunteers' until he was lost on the Island of Morotai where he lived in a hut he built in a small fenced in field for almost twenty years. We cover their lives in wartime and afterwards in this unforgivingly historical episode of the Family Plot Podcast!

#determination #devotion #grit #guam #hiroo #holdouts #ii #island #japan #lubang #morotai #nakamura #no #onoda #shoichi #surrender #tetsuo #war #world #yokoi

[mrericjapanesesoldierstory]

Mr Eric P Looks At Hiroo Onoda - True story.

This is the story of a Japanese soldier who failed to surrender in ww2 and carried on fighting into the 70s.

Comedy, True Story, History

#comedy #puppet #truestory #ww2 #pacific #military #funny #unusual #crazy #fun #odd #eric #mrp #Youtube

[the-chosen-none]

I have no real interest in mods aside from somewhat following the Frontier mess, but when I found out that the fairly popular old New Vegas Bounties mods included incredibly blatant references to Judge Holden and Glanton from Blood Meridian, plus a character named "Javier Sugar" who speaks several lines lifted straight from No Country for Old Men, I wanted to find out how many references to other things pop up throughout the three mods. Turns out, a LOT.

I identified some of them myself, but eventually when I realized how much time it would take for me to watch a whole playthrough or try it out myself, I decided to look up the rest on TV Tropes and put them all together in a list.

The aforementioned Judge Holden knock-off is also said to be seven-feet tall and is a child predator (though only technically implied to be in Holden's case)

The character literally named Glanton runs a group who goes around killing "tribals"

There's a character named Cormac, as in Cormac McCarthy

During the scene with "Javier Sugar", in addition to all the NCFOM quotes there's also a random quote from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales thrown in there... to spice things up? IDK, the quote is something like "Dyin' ain't no way of livin', boy"

A character called "Harmonica" references one of the main characters of Once Upon a Time in the West

The ghoul Doc Friday references the historical figure Doc Holiday, and his revolver the Huckleberry references the famous quote from his depiction in the movie Tombstone, "I could be your huckleberry"

Marko's outfit seems to reference the character Loco from the movie The Great Silence.

The Frosthill segment of III is also lifted from The Great Silence, what with its Utah setting during the winter, the main character getting shot through the hand, and bounty hunters pretty much kill the whole town.

Aaron Flagg the cult leader seems to be inspired by Randall Flagg the Stephen King villain

The sniper Charlie Halfcocked references the U.S. Marine sniper during Vietnam, Carlos Hathcock, the previous record holder for the most kills

Tom Quigley references the movie Quigley Down Under, the titular character being played by Tom Sellick.

Enclave members Quantrill and Onoda, who keep fighting despite the Enclave's repeated defeats, are named after Confederate guerilla William Quantrill and WWII Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who did the same for their sides (okay, I thought that reference was pretty good)

Eileen the Fiend = serial killer Aileen Wuornos

Tony Idaho = Tony Montana from Scarface

Tommy the former Omerta enforcer who killed a made man references Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas

Alex and his gang in Freeside reference Alex DeLarge and his droogs from A Clockwork Orange

Freddie the ghoul = Freddy Krueger

Jack, former muscle for Heck Gunderson, references the villain Jack Wilson from Shane, his revolver is called "Shane's Bane"

Albert Quisling = Vidkun Quisling

Mario Barksdale = character from The Wire

Prometheus is named after the subtitle for Frankenstein: "The modern Prometheus", his Deathclaws are Mary and Shelley

Pancho Cortina = Pancho Villa

"Squirrelly" Bill Blasius references outlaw "Curly" Bill Brocius

Angel Lee is a combination of Angel Eyes from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and the actor Lee Van Cleef

Godwin, who mails out bombs, probably references Unabomber

Joe Frost = Edward Snowden

Guys fighting over treasure named Clint and Tuco

Fiend chem lab has characters Walter and Pinkman, references Breaking Bad

John Ramsey's body is put on display with a quote referencing the movie Unforgiven, "This is what happens to assassins/rangers around here".

Those are the ones that I either caught myself or saw other people list, if there's more, go ahead and add on.

Some of the historical references are kinda funny, though others are either tasteless (Aileen Wuornos) or eye-roll worthy (Carlos Hathcock = Charlie Halfcocked, GEDDIT IT'S A GUN JOKE), and the majority of the pop culture references are so blatant and so numerous that it gets annoying.

If I made my own mod or anything else, of course I too would love to stick in a bunch of references to the things I love, though I would try to be less obvious about them, put different spins on them, you know? You can't really judge mods to the same standard as the source, and I would be more forgiving if the rest of the mods didn't look like such an edgy slog.

#fallout mods #fallout new vegas #new vegas bounties

[moonyvali]

È un mondo difficile...

"Mentre la guerra è sparita di corsa dai radar per via del fatto che gli italiani questa volta non si sono bevuti la solita propaganda farneticante, sulle dosi continuano a comparire dalla giungla degli strampalati Hiroo Onoda, che tentano di vendere il richiamo del booster della quarta dose che al Mercato dell'Est mio padre comprò.

Fisici senza nessuna competenza in materia che consigliano farmaci con grafici incomprensibili e ridicoli. Medici che fanno i politici, politici che fanno i medici, pacifisti belligeranti. Influncer e personaggi di "spicco" che prima consigliano di lavare le mani compulsivamente ogni minuto poiché l'igiene estrema combatte il virus e poi dicono di fare la doccia due volte alla settimana, di non cambiare le mutande tutti i giorni e di tirare lo sciacquone una volta al dì per sanzionare la Russia e salvare l'ambiente .

Mala tempora currunt."

Da Weltanschauung Italia.

[aitan]

Oggi sono vent’anni che cerco distrazione e attenzione tra le pagine del mio diario pubblico; vent’anni che mi scavo e vi ammorbo col mio blog autarchico, periferico e resistente.

#post #20 anni #blog #aitan #aitanblog #Giappone #corvo

[sixbucks]

I’ve got the new Werner Herzog book and I can’t stop reading it in his voice.

There’s a sound file on the linked page. Check it out!

#werner herzog #voices in my head

[privatejoker]

Give us some of your current watches/favorites right now. Just asking for a friend, obviously. :^)

I just grabbed Werner Herzog's novel about Hiroo Onoda which I'm really excited about. I've mostly been reading a bunch of misc books so I can write recommendations for work. Didion's Democracy. And I'm finally getting around to reading Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home all the way through. And I'm excited about Top Gun Maverick lol

#also trotskys terrorism and communism with an intro by slavoj zizek

[aiiaiiiyo]

Hiroo Onoda walks out of the jungle on Lubang Island after agreeing to surrender 29 years after the end of World War II, March 11, 1974 [1118 x 1600] Check this blog!

#Past-Two342 #historyporn #history

[leaarongmail-blog]

WWII soldier who wouldn't surrender for 30 years - Hiroo Onoda

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