Пожары на равнинах (2015)

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Fires on the Plain is a 2014 Japanese war film written, produced, directed, edited, co-photographed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto. The film is based on the 1951 anti-war novel Fires on the Plain, which was a semi-autobiographical work loosely based on author Shōhei Ōoka's experience in World War II. The novel was previously adapted in the 1959 film Fires on the Plain by Kon Ichikawa. The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, and was released to the wider Japanese box office on 25 July 2015.

Production and themes

Shinya Tsukamoto read the novel as a child and was taken with its power; he stated in an interview that he always wanted to make a movie version. He said that even his first movie, the 1989 cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, was influenced by Fires on the Plain; they both feature "normal" people who are drastically shaped by their environment.

Tsukamoto originally wanted to make "an epic movie, with a big budget" but was turned down by the companies he approached. He made the project completely self-funded as an independent film instead. Tsukamoto also made the film due to the renewed interest in revising Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and potential military involvement: "I wanted to remind younger audiences, for whom the horrors of WWII are a distant memory and may feel war is…

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