A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.
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One of my best war movie collections, but Japanese war criminals and their descendants would extremely hate this movie.
No more wars only kill innocent people by bad ones above who plan the war and make money from the blood.
No more wars only kill innocent people by bad ones above who plan the war and make money from the blood.
Horrible and unforgettable I guess, this film set in the last days of the Japaneses occupation of the Philippines.. If you are in the right, masochistic mood, as I partly was, this is stimulating in its gore, which reaches and then goes far beyond most zombie movies. In fact, the 'hero' and much of the cast stumble about in zombie fashion, searching for yams and when these are scarce, bits of human pork - even, in once scene, eating their own. The actors make little impression, becasue, as in many films where most characters are there to be bumped off, they are easy to confuse. There are some weird jump cuts and sudden fades to white, with a harsh score, adding to the excruciating effect of having a root canal done to you by a psychopathic novice.
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- TriviaBased on the 1959 film of the same name by Kon Ichikawa.
- ConnectionsRemake of Les Feux dans la plaine (1959)
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- 塚本晉也之野火
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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