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JAPAN · 1959
Fires on the Plain
Synopsis
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
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Japan · Japanese Golden Age
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black and white · cannibal · 1940s · world war ii · pacific war
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