SYNOPSIS:

Lt. Kashiwa, a trained special-ops soldier is sent to the jungles in the Philippines to sabotage Allied forces' installations and while miscommunication between his own Army forces him to retreat into the jungle with 4 other men, they make it a point to defend themselves against any possible threat. As years go by, they ponder what life in the outside World would be like and they start wondering why there were more civilians roaming the jungles instead of military men. After a few years, the men die one by one of old age and sickness, leaving Lt. Kashiwa on his own. Every attempt by his own people to bring him back home were met with resistance, sensing that they were all propaganda by Allied forces to lure him to his arrest. Eventually, 29 years later, his former General, now the owner of a bookstore in Tokyo goes back into the forest by himself to look for Lt. Kashiwa and finally convinces him that the war ended almost 3 decades ago and that he should go home. Hachiko is based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda and is the ultimate definition of Loyalty.