JAPAN · 1959

Fires on the Plain

Kon Ichikawa
Japanese Golden Age black and white cannibal 1940s world war ii pacific war
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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.

Year1959
CountryJapan
DirectorKon Ichikawa
Fires on the Plain poster

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