Fires on the Plain
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11/3/1959Runtime
105 minsOverview
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.
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A harrowing descent into dehumanization and desperation as a dying soldier stumbles through a war-ravaged landscape. Masaki Kobayashi's vision of collapse is uncompromising and formally precise, beautiful in its cruelty.
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