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Fires on the Plain (野火, Nobi) is a 1959 Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi. The screenplay, written by Natto Wada, is based on the novel Nobi (Tokyo 1951) by Shōhei Ōoka, translated as Fires on the Plain.
Fires on the Plain: Directed by Kon Ichikawa. With Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Hikaru Hoshi. In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.
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- Drama, War
- Kon Ichikawa
- 1959-11-03
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion.
- Tamura, Yasuda, Nagamatsu
Jul 17, 2020 · Burmese Harp chronicles the story of a Japanese soldier who relinquishes repatriation only to stay in Burma as a Buddhist monk at the end of the Pacific War. The soldier initially steals the monk robes just to disguise himself.
This Japanese film follows a soldier, Tamura (Eiji Funakoshi), who, along with hordes of other men, has been stranded in the jungles of the Philippines during the waning days of World...
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- War
- Kon Ichikawa
Mar 12, 2007 · The incendiary and extraordinarily brutal Fires on the Plain (1959), one of the central films upon which Ichikawa’s reputation is based, underscores the accuracy of Sato’s assessment: few war films have ever had the courage to wallow so directly in the offal of man’s inhumanity to man, or to render so bleakly and so bluntly the ...
In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation. It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura.
