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Fires on the Plain (1959)

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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Logan W 25 Jul 2009

A very well made film with a very good message about war. The characters portrayed are very well done. Although it is a very good film, there is a negative message about the Americans in it but all in all very good. Also a lot of very wide shots were used in this film along with very few close ups. Very nice directing if I do say so myself.

Sean N 08 Oct 2008

Made me wanna grow a beard...and maybe become a cannibal.

Dax D 01 Mar 2013

A beautifully filmed, intense anti-war film, Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain is a harrowing descent into despair. Faced with the fundamental existential decision of whether or not to commit suicide, protagonist Tamura wanders around a newly conquered island in the Philippines near the close of WWII. Near death from tuberculosis, Tamura seeks a place with various army units on the island but is denied because of his condition and is even ordered to commit suicide. But Tamura refuses to give up and continues to roam the hellish landscape of the island as dark temptations of murder and cannibalism begin gnawing at his conscience. Will he submit to these animalistic desires to survive or will he preserve his humanity until the end? This is the haunting question that lies at the heart of Ichikawa's horrifying depiction of war when all the aspirations of honor, patriotism, and just cause are stripped away to reveal the bleeding corpses that support the effort.

Bosley Crowther 08 May 2005

The performance of Eiji Funakoshi as the straggler cannot help but make you feel a terrible sense of the human waste and pathos represented in the ruin of this poor man.

Sean Axmaker 25 Apr 2007

... a grim and gruesome and at times macabre autopsy of its (selectively Japanese) victims.