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.
- Released
- 1959-11-03
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kon Ichikawa, Natto Wada
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 from 130 votes
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