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Title:

Fires on the plain (DVD) [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Daiei Studios ; Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Natto Wada ; directed by Kon Ichikawa.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Subject:

Japan.--Rikugun--Drama.
Soldiers--Japan--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Drama.
Cannibalism--Drama.
Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Drama.
Cannibalism--Drama.
War films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
War--Feature.
Feature films.
War films.

Other Authors:

880-01 Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008.
880-02 Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985.
Wada, Natsuto, 1920-1983.
880-03 Funakoshi, Eiji.
880-04 Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000.
Curtis, Mickey, 1938-
880-05 Ōoka, Shōhei, 1909-1988. Nobi.
Akutagawa, Yasushi, 1925-1989.
Janus Films.
880-06 Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
Kadokawa Herald Pictures.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Shōhei Ōoka. Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Hikaru Hoshi, Mantaro Ushio, Masaya Tsukida, Ko Sukida, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Asao Sano, Shin Date, Yoshio Inaba, Jun Hamamura. Originally produced as a Japanese motion picture in 1959. Special features: Donald Richie Interview [featurette] (13 min.); Ichikawa and Curtis [featurette] (21 min.); Booklet includes essay "Both Ends Burning" by Chuck Stephens.

Contents:

"That will be your final duty" -- A soldier's journey/Opening credits -- Native dish -- "If you can walk, you're not a patient" -- Attack! -- Many days passed-and many nights -- Price of salt -- Oshima Company -- March of the dead -- "Men can't live without tobacco" -- Boot exchange -- Road to Palompon -- Night crossing -- Take no prisoners -- "Hey, are you dead?" -- Food for thought -- Reunion -- "Monkey meat" -- Splash of blood -- Fires on the plain -- Color bars.

Summary:

February 1945. Tamura's regiment of Japanese soldiers is fighting in the Philippines. A consumptive, neither his squad commander nor the doctor at the military hospital want him around--food is too scarce. Sent away by both, Tamura wanders the countryside, falling in with different groups of soldiers, observing Filipino peasants lighting large, smoky bonfires in the countryside. Are they signal fires sent out to American soldiers or local guerrillas? Whatever their purpose, Tamura is reassured by the hopeful idea of the peasants continuing the ritual of their simple life, uncorrupted by ravages of war.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 378

ISBN:

9781934121283
1934121282

UPC:

715515022620

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)