Fires on the Plain

Name: Fires on the Plain
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1959-11-03
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Cast: Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Hikaru Hoshi, Mantarō Ushio

1959 · 1h 45m · Drama, War

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.

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Cast

Eiji Funakoshi as Tamura
Osamu Takizawa as Yasuda
Mickey Curtis as Nagamatsu
Hikaru Hoshi as Soldier
Mantarō Ushio as Sergeant
Masaya Tsukida as Soldier
Koh Sugita as Soldier
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi as Officer
Tatsuya Ishiguro as Unshaven Army Doctor
Yoshio Inaba as Squad Leader
Jun Hamamura as Deranged Officer
Asao Sano as Soldier

Details

Director: Kon Ichikawa
Released: November 3, 1959
Runtime: 1h 45m
Genres: Drama, War
Studio: Daiei Film
Status: Released
TMDB score: 7.6 / 10 from 130 votes

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