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Fires on the Plain

Drama, War

Eiji Funakoshi	Tamura
Osamu Takizawa	Yasuda
Mickey Curtis	Nagamatsu
Mantarô Ushio	Sergeant
Kyu Sazanaka	Army surgeon
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi	Officer
Asao Sano	Soldier
Masaya Tsukida	Soldier
Hikaru Hoshi	Soldier
Jun Hamamura

Director	Kon Ichikawa
Producer	Hiroaki Fujii
Writer	Shohei Ooka; Natto Wada

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.