Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

Fires on the Plain is a 1959 drama war movie directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Takizawa. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.9/10 from 5,877 votes and runs 1h 48m.