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Released
1959 · FILM

Fires on the Plain

Directed by
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
105 min
Language
JA
DramaWar
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

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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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tatsuji NakashizuShot by Setsuo KobayashiScored by Yasushi AkutagawaDesigned by Atsuji Shibata

Also known as

  • Feuer im Graslandde
  • Nobide
  • Nobi - Feuer im Graslandde
  • Fires on the Plainen
  • Nobien
  • Fuego en la llanuraes
  • Nobifr
  • Fuochi nella pianurait

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