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Fires on the Plain poster

A KON ICHIKAWA FILM

Fires on the Plain

19591h 45mNRMovie

DramaWar

IMDb7.9/ 10 · 6K votes

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.

Dark
Melancholic
Gritty
War
Survival
Isolation

Pace: Slow burn
Intensity: Brutal
Complexity: Some focus

Good for talking about after and late nights. Contains graphic violence and gore.

DirectorKon Ichikawa

FormatFeature film

TMDB7.6 / 10

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The people behind the story

Top cast

Eiji FunakoshiTamura

Osamu TakizawaYasuda

Mickey CurtisNagamatsu

Hikaru HoshiSoldier

Mantarō UshioSergeant

Masaya TsukidaSoldier

Koh SugitaSoldier

Yoshihiro HamaguchiOfficer

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