Film / Reviews Jul 22, 2015
A second look at bloody WWII novel 'Fires on the Plain'
by Mark Schilling
Japanese war films typically frame themselves as anti-war, even when they glorify the sacrifices made by brave Japanese boys in defense of the homeland, as in the 2013 hit "Eien no Zero" ("The Eternal Zero"). Kon Ichikawa's 1959 war film "Nobi" ("Fires on the Plain") ...