Fires on the Plain

Based On the book by Shōhei Ōoka

Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火, Hepburn: Nobi) is a 2014 Japanese war film written, produced, directed, edited, co-photographed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto. The film is based on the 1951 anti-war novel Fires on the Plain, which was a semi-autobiographical work loosely based on author Shōhei Ōoka's experience in World War II. The novel was previously adapted in the 1959 film Fires on the Plain by Kon Ichikawa. The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, and was released to the wider Japanese box office on 25 July 2015. Fires on the Plain takes place during the final days of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines on the island of Leyte, after the American army had returned.

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Release date:

September 2, 2014

Director:

Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast:

Shinya Tsukamoto, Yūko Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakamura

Genre:

Drama

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Year page:

2014 in adaptations