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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

Hikaru Hoshi

Soldier

Mantarō Ushio

Sergeant

Masaya Tsukida

Soldier

Koh Sugita

Soldier

Yoshihiro Hamaguchi

Officer

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