Fires on the Plain

Name: Fires on the Plain
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Released: 1959
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis

1959 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 5,518 VOTES · DIR. Kon Ichikawa

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 731 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:30 DAIEI STUDIOS

00:02:26 I don't begrudge you the food.

00:05:01 The enemy doesn't even bother with us anymore

00:11:36 Screenplay by NATTO WADA

00:19:30 The hospital!

00:22:41 They really should admit you.

00:26:02 Tell us when you gotta pee. We'll hold you up.

00:31:36 Some of you may still be alive.

00:44:35 Are there any left?

00:46:45 - Ashes from a signal fire! - Signal fire?

00:49:04 So one ran away. And the other?

00:52:57 Is that true?

00:55:42 Leave him then.

01:00:52 You still around?

01:03:24 Better just think of that as a joke.

01:10:32 He's smoking.

01:18:16 When I'm dead...

01:22:29 And he's got tobacco.

01:24:44 He hunts monkeys with it. Only thing keeping us alive.

01:29:03 Here's some water.

01:31:05 They might be around, even in the rain.

01:33:01 He said not to let you have it.

01:36:50 Where'd the bastard go?

01:39:10 Let's make up!

Cast & Characters

Eiji Funakoshi Tamura Mantarô Ushio Sergeant Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Officer Osamu Takizawa Yasuda Mickey Curtis Nagamatsu Hikaru Hoshi Soldier Masaya Tsukida Soldier Yasushi Sugita Soldier Tatsuya Ishiguro Yoshio Inaba

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed731

Dialogue density7.0 lines / min

First line00:00:30

Final line01:39:10

Production Record

DirectorKon Ichikawa

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes5,518