Fires on the Plain

7.6 1959 Kon Ichikawa 1h 45m
Drama War
Fires on the Plain

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.

Cast

Eiji Funakoshi Eiji Funakoshi Tamura
Osamu Takizawa Osamu Takizawa Yasuda
Mickey Curtis Mickey Curtis Nagamatsu
Mantarō Ushio Mantarō Ushio Sergeant
Kyū Sazanka Kyū Sazanka Army surgeon
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Officer
Hikaru Hoshi Hikaru Hoshi Soldier
Masaya Tsukida Masaya Tsukida Soldier

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