Onoda Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

Onoda: 10,000 Nights In The Jungle, streaming now on 4ondemand

Given that the channels seem to be saving up films for a big Easter splash at the moment, it's worth remembering that most of them have some great On Demand selections. Channel 4 has 15 world cinema choices at the moment, including this robust piece of storytelling from Arthur Harrari. It recounts the stranger-than-fiction tale of Hiroo Onoda (played as a young man by Endô Yûya and then by Tsuda Kanji) - a Japanese Army recruit who was deployed to the Philippines in the Second World War and who never got the message to lay down his gun. Harrari begins near the end of this tale before winding back the clock so that we can see how, as a rebellious youth, Onoda found himself seconded to the intelligence service. He and his fellow recruits are told they are to.