Nov 03, 1959
105 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Drama War

Country

Japan

Companies

Daiei Film

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

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