Fires on the Plain

Name: Fires on the Plain
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1959
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 7.598

1959 · 105 min

Drama · War

★ 7.6

Criterion

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.

Crew

Director Kon Ichikawa
Writer Natto Wada
Director of Photography Setsuo Kobayashi

Cast

Eiji Funakoshi
Tamura
Osamu Takizawa
Yasuda
Mickey Curtis
Nagamatsu
Mantarō Ushio
Sergeant
Kyū Sazanka
Army surgeon
Y
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Officer
Hikaru Hoshi
Soldier
Masaya Tsukida
Soldier
K
Kô Sugita
Soldier
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Yoshio Inaba
Jun Hamamura

Crew

Director — Kon Ichikawa
Writer — Natto Wada
Director of Photography — Setsuo Kobayashi

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