Drama ·War · Japan · 1959 · 1h 45m

Fires on the Plain

野火

Fires on the Plain poster
Director
Kon Ichikawa
Cast
Eiji Funakoshi as Tamura Osamu Takizawa as Yasuda Mickey Curtis as Nagamatsu Mantarō Ushio as Sergeant Kyū Sazanka as Army surgeon Yoshihiro Hamaguchi as Officer
Crew
Setsuo Kobayashi — Director of Photography Tatsuji Nakashizu — Editor Yasushi Akutagawa — Original Music Composer Natto Wada — Writer Shohei Ooka — Novel Masaichi Nagata — Producer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
world war iiphilippinespacific warblack and whitecannibalstruggle for survivaljapanese army1940s
Key Collaborators
Kon Ichikawa Director Setsuo Kobayashi Director of Photography Tatsuji Nakashizu Editor Yasushi Akutagawa Original Music Composer Natto Wada Writer Shohei Ooka Novel Masaichi Nagata Producer Atsuji Shibata Production Design
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