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Fires on the Plain

Name: Fires on the Plain
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1959
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Hikaru Hoshi, Mantarō Ushio

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

1959 · Directed by Kon Ichikawa · 105 min · Drama · War · 10 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Natto Wada
Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi
Edited by: Tatsuji Nakashizu
Music: Yasushi Akutagawa
Production design: Atsuji Shibata
Produced by: Masaichi Nagata

Cast

Eiji Funakoshi as Tamura
Osamu Takizawa as Yasuda
Mickey Curtis as Nagamatsu
Hikaru Hoshi as Soldier
Mantarō Ushio as Sergeant
Masaya Tsukida as Soldier
Koh Sugita as Soldier
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi as Officer
Tatsuya Ishiguro as Unshaven Army Doctor
Yoshio Inaba as Squad Leader

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Tagalog, Japanese
Studios: Daiei Film
Themes: world war ii, defeat, philippines, pacific war, black and white, cannibal, struggle for survival, japanese army, japanese soldier, horrors of war

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