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Fires on the plain = Nobi

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Special ed.

Languages

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.

Special features: video introduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie ; video piece featuring director Kon Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis.

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