

Fires on the Plain
1959 · Movie · 1h 45m · NR
DramaWar
Overview
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.
Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Key crew
- Kon IchikawaDirector
- Natto WadaWriter
- Yasushi AkutagawaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Eiji FunakoshiTamura
- Osamu TakizawaYasuda
- Mickey CurtisNagamatsu
- Mantarō UshioSergeant
- Kyū SazankaArmy surgeon
- Yoshihiro HamaguchiOfficer
- Hikaru HoshiSoldier
- Masaya TsukidaSoldier
- Kô SugitaSoldier
- Tatsuya IshiguroCast
- Yoshio InabaCast
- Jun HamamuraCast
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Themes
world war iidefeatphilippinespacific warblack and whitecannibalstruggle for survivaljapanese armyjapanese soldierhorrors of warcannibalismleft behind























