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Title: a nice Kon Ichikawa release
Review: This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film."Fires on the Plain" released in Japan as "Nobi" is about a Japanese soldier during World War II that is stranded in the Philipines after being turned away from a hospital for treatment of tuberculosis. He encounters other soldiers whose morale decreases with each passing day.This in my opinion is an antiwar film and does a good job at showing the hellishness of war.The DVD contains interviews with the film's director Kon Ichikawa and Japanese actor Mickey Curtis. There is also a theatrical trailer and an intrduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie.
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