Fires on the Plain 4K 1959

Late fall of 1944. The last days of the Japanese occupation in the Philippines. The turf war has already been lost, the high command has been evacuated, and the infantry is left to die. Without provisions, medicine or ammunition, under Allied bombs and bullets from local guerrillas. Private Tamura was stranded on Leyte Island due to his ailment and gradually became "the man who isn't there." He was kicked out of the hospital back to the trenches to avoid wasting pills.