Fires on the Plain
19591h 45mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- War
Overview
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.
Keywords
- 1940s
- world war ii
- struggle for survival
- cannibal
- black and white
- defeat
- japanese army
- pacific war
- cannibalism
- philippines
- japanese soldier
- horrors of war
- left behind
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 3, 1959
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, Tagalog
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film
- Cast
- Eiji Funakoshi,Osamu Takizawa,Mickey Curtis,Mantarō Ushio,Kyū Sazanka,Yoshihiro Hamaguchi,Hikaru Hoshi,Masaya Tsukida,Kô Sugita,Tatsuya Ishiguroand 15 more
- Director
- Kon Ichikawa
- Writer
- Shohei Ooka,Natto Wada
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
- Cinematography
- Setsuo Kobayashi
- Music
- Yasushi Akutagawa
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0053121