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Fires on the Plain
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7.6In 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.
Released: 1959-11-03105 minDir: Kon IchikawaDrama, War
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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
Themes
- world war ii
- defeat
- philippines
- pacific war
- black and white
- cannibal
- struggle for survival
- japanese army
- japanese soldier
- horrors of war
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Golden Leopard
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Based on
- Fires on the Plain
- Main subject
- Pacific War
- Director
- Kon Ichikawa
- Screenwriter
- Shōhei Ōoka
- Cast member
- Eiji Funakoshi
- Composer
- Yasushi Akutagawa
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
- Narrative location
- Philippines
- Duration
- 104
- FilmAffinity ID
- 660457
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- publication date
- 1959-01-01
- title
- 野火
- after a work by
- Shōhei Ōoka
- distributed by
- Daiei Film
- color
- black-and-white
- review score
- 100%
- language of work or name
- Japanese
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