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.

00:05:05 yet we still dig air-raid shelters.

00:11:46 Production Design by TOKUJI SHIBATA

00:19:36 You idiot!

00:23:02 He got lots of tobacco from somewhere. Wraps it around his belly.

00:26:42 - Fucking bastard! - What's going on?

00:32:10 AND MANY NIGHTS

00:44:57 They'll tide us over until Palompon.

00:47:06 Looks like they just harvested this field.

00:49:28 Isn't it safer to stay here?

00:53:31 But the son of a bitch can't move at all.

00:56:08 You plan to surrender too?

01:01:28 That marsh is pretty deep.

01:04:21 It says "traveling chaplain."

01:16:14 Buddha is Amida...

01:21:12 I can't chew.

01:23:39 I didn't recognize him at first either. He's changed so much.

01:26:12 Don't tell me he came here in order not to eat.

01:29:50 'cause I don't want him stealing my rifle.

01:31:59 They don't come out in the rain, do they?

01:35:00 Where's your grenade?

01:37:50 I won't be happy till I finish him off.

01:44:25 THE END

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 line01:44:25

Production Record

DirectorKon Ichikawa

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes5,518