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Fires on the plain [videorecording (DVD)] / a Kon Ichikawa film.

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The Criterion Collection, c2007.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Drama.

Cannibalism -- Drama.

Criterion collection 378.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Nobi [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (105 min.) : Dobly digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + booklet (17 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Based on the novel by Shohei Ooka.

Originally produced as motion picture in 1959.

Special features: New restored high-definition digital transfer ; new video introduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie ; new video piece featuring director Kon Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; plus: a essay by film critic Chuck Stephens.

2.35:1 aspect ratio.

In Japanese language with optional English subtitles.

Daiei Studios ; screenplay by Natto Wada ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Eiji Funakoshi and Osamu Takizawa.

"An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II and the lengths they go to survive, Kon Ichikawa's Fires On The Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Filipino landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross-section of Imperial Army soldiers. Grisly yet poetic, Fires On The Plain is one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema's most versatile filmmakers."--Container.

Japanese films.

Anti-war films.

Military films.

Ōoka, Shōhei, 1909-1988. Nobi.

Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008.

Funakoshi, Eiji.

Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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