Fires on the Plain

You're a dying soldier crawling through sugarcane fields, your uniform fused to fevered skin, chewing on grass to quiet your stomach. Then a corpse offers you a cigarette, lit. The camera stays wide, framing bodies like fallen timber, Japan's imperial myth reduced to trembling close-ups and dirt.

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Shinya Tsukamoto directed Fires on the Plain in 2015. See Shinya Tsukamoto's full filmography, where to start with Shinya Tsukamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Fires on the Plain was released in 2015 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 87 minutes.