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Title

Fires on the plain [videorecording] / Daiei ; produced by Maisaishi Nagata.

Publication

Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1959.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008.

Description

1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.

Summary

In this Japanese anti-war film, acts of cannibalism reinforce the terrifying brutality of war. During the collapse of the Japanese army in the Philippines, a soldier, Tamura, is sent to a hospital but is rejected due to his tubercular condition. He is forced to wander the hills without sustenance, harassed by American tanks and terrified by "fires on the plain," conflagrations set by Filipinos in vengeance against the Japanese. Tamura meets several soldiers who have resorted to cannibalism for survival and joins two stragglers, unsuspectingly sharing human flesh with them. Ichikawa's film helped initiate the war film genre in Japan with its depiction of physical and mental devastation.

Subjects

• Foreign films
• Foreign films > Japan
• Feature films
• War films
• World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
• Motion pictures > Japan

Genre/Form

Feature films.

Note

• In Japanese with English subtitles.
• Based on the novel by Shohei Ooka.

Credits (note)

• Director, Kon Ichikawa; screenplay, Natto Wada; photography, Setsuo Kobayashi; music, Yasushi Akutagawa.

Performer (note)

• Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Micky Curtis, Asao Sano.

Title

Fires on the plain [videorecording] / Daiei ; produced by Maisaishi Nagata.

Imprint

Los Angeles : The Voyager Company, 1959.

Credits

Director, Kon Ichikawa; screenplay, Natto Wada; photography, Setsuo Kobayashi; music, Yasushi Akutagawa.

Cast

Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Micky Curtis, Asao Sano.

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Added Author

Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008. Director

Branch Call Number

VTH 1134 F