実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different. However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.
- Genre: TV-Film
- Land: Japan
- Direktor: Yoshito Fukumoto
- Schauspieler: 中村獅童, Hidetoshi Nishijima, 堺雅人, 柳葉敏郎, 片岡鶴太郎, 中村嘉葎雄, Hiroshi Katsuno, Takanori Hatakeyama, Nenji Kobayashi, 八千草薫,
