Fires on the Plain

1h 45m
DramaWar
7.5

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.

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
Unknown
Yoshio Inaba
Unknown
Jun Hamamura
Unknown
Asao Sano
Soldier
Shin Date
Unknown
Kōichi Itō
Unknown
Kisao Tobita
Unknown
Osamu Ōkawa
Unknown
Manabu Morita
Unknown
Shō Natsuki
Unknown
Kyōsuke Shiho
Unknown
Shizuo Chūjō
Unknown
Tōru Konoki
Unknown
Tetsurō Takeuchi
Unknown
Keiichi Hosokawa
Unknown
Yūzō Hayakawa
Unknown

Crew

Kon Ichikawa
Director
Natto Wada
Writer
Shohei Ooka
Novel
Tatsuji Nakashizu
Editor
Setsuo Kobayashi
Director of Photography
Tarō Yuge
Assistant Director
Asao Kumada
Production Supervisor
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Atsuji Shibata
Production Design
Ken'ichi Nishii
Sound
Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer

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