Fires on the Plain
7.6
124 votes·1959
·1h 45m
·MovieDramaWar
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
world war iidefeatphilippinespacific warblack and whitecannibalstruggle for survivaljapanese armyjapanese soldierhorrors of warcannibalismleft behind
Cast
Eiji Funakoshi
Tamura
Osamu Takizawa
Yasuda
Mickey Curtis
Nagamatsu
Mantarō Ushio
Sergeant
Kyū Sazanka
Army surgeon
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Officer
Hikaru Hoshi
Soldier
Masaya Tsukida
Soldier
Kô Sugita
Soldier
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Yoshio Inaba
Jun Hamamura
Asao Sano
Soldier
Shin Date
Kōichi Itō
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