Fires on the Plain (1959)
野火
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.
- Date of release
- 1959-11-03
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (130)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Kon Ichikawa
Casting
- Eiji Funakoshi — Tamura
- Osamu Takizawa — Yasuda
- Mickey Curtis — Nagamatsu
- Hikaru Hoshi — Soldier
- Mantarō Ushio — Sergeant
- Masaya Tsukida — Soldier
- Koh Sugita — Soldier
- Yoshihiro Hamaguchi — Officer
- Tatsuya Ishiguro — Unshaven Army Doctor
- Yoshio Inaba — Squad Leader
- Jun Hamamura — Deranged Officer
- Asao Sano — Soldier
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