JAPANESE CINEMA ECLECTICS: FIRES ON THE PLAIN

(Image borrowed from Well Medicated)

Announcement from SSJ Forum:

JAPANESE CINEMA ECLECTICS
A Multipart Series Devoted to Unexplored Tangents of the Japanese Film Produced by The Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Temple University Japan Campus

FIRES ON THE PLAIN (Nobi)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Scenario by Natsuto Wada after the novel by Shohei Ooka 1959, 104 min.

Thursday, February 26 @ Super-Deluxe
Open 7pm / Start 8pm
Cost: 1500yen @ door

Map: http://www.super-deluxe.com/map/

Introduction and Q&A by Donald Richie in English
(Film in Japanese with English subtitles)

Curator: Donald Richie

Fires on the Plain (Nobi)

One of the most powerful works from one of Japan's most versatile filmmakers, Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008), Fires on the Plain is also one of the most convincing antiwar films ever made. By making us share the brutalities and horrors of the last days of the Imperial Japanese Army, it forces us to share the miseries that man brings upon himself. Private Tamura, the protagonist, keeps on living to the end, if only (as one critic has phrased it) "to set himself apart from the solders around him who, in their desperation, have begun to regard the mortal remains of their fallen comrades
with hungry eyes."