If you loved Our Neighbor, Miss Yae, try Fires on the Plain

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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

1934 · dir. Yasujirō Shimazu

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Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Our Neighbor, Miss Yae, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Fires on the Plain is

You trudge through the Philippine jungle as a Japanese soldier with tuberculosis. But disease and hunger soon overwhelm your mission. The film leaves him a haunting figure of war.

If you loved Our Neighbor, Miss Yae, try Fires on the Plain

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

Fires on the Plain

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What Fires on the Plain is

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