Fighting with sticks

Werner Herzog's acts of faith

With The Twilight World, his first venture into prose fiction, the filmmaker Werner Herzog has chosen a subject so tailor-made for him it amounts to self-parody.¹ In a cinematic oeuvre devoted to questing megalomaniacs and half-bestial outcasts, it seems inevitable that he would eventually find his way to Hiroo Onoda, most famous of the so-called “Japane…