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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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