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WarDrama

Fires on the Plain

Director
Kon Ichikawa
Year
1959
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
NR
Release
1959
Language
ja
Country
JP

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01 · Overview

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The story

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.

  • #black and white
  • #cannibalism
  • #philippines
  • #cannibal
  • #horrors of war
  • #defeat
  • #struggle for survival
  • #japanese army
  • #pacific war
  • #left behind
  • #japanese soldier
  • #world war ii

  • Directed by

    Kon Ichikawa

  • Written by

    Natto Wada

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