fires on the plain directed by kon ichikawa and written by shohei ooka and natto wada is a world war two movie which is finally not showing the allies fighting the axis powers and but the japanese fighting and struggling for their lives on the philippines. the main characters name is tamura  and played by eiji funakoshi and and he is a soldier leaving his regiment because of him being sick. all he has on him is a hand grenade and his gun and some potatoes. like this and he is trying to make his way to the hospital in order to get a doctor and a cure for his disease. but since the hospital turned him away and gets destroyed and he begins a long walk. throughout the whole movie and tamura remains a bit cowardish and but very civil and when the other soldiers become more like animals by using their basic instincts for survival tamura is still remaining human and would not degrade. a scene which has influenced me a lot to think positively and different about this war movie is and when tamura comes into a phillipino village which is completely deserted. there and he fights a dog and finds a lot of corpses of japanese soldiers stacked up in front of a church. this makes tamura think and even more scared than he already is. that shows that the soldier is not a brave killing machine and but a servant to higher beings and human most importantly. after he turns away from the corpses and two phillipinos (a couple or brother and sister represent very close relationship) return to the village in order to get their stash of salt back. the main character of the movie wants to be friendly at first and although he walked up to them with his gun and but shoots the woman once she starts screaming. her brother or boyfriend or husband then runs away in fear and after a moment tamura follows him and shoots wildly at the fleeing filipino. he does not hit him. after tamura picks up the bag of salt  and something very precious  and he drops his gun into a river. this gesture is very important in order to understand kon ichikawa or shohei ooka profiling of tamura and the war. comparing this movie to other world war 2 movies and it is not typical at all. of course all movies have suffering heroes and but their heroes are more heroic than tamura. he expresses everything that is human represent he is getting manipulated  and he is weak  and he gets scared  and he has hope. this is typical for japanese world war two movies and for japanese society. since world war two is not a discussed theme in japanese society and japanese are likely to put japanese in the second world war in the role of the victim. this victimisation is also very visual in this movie. one of the examples is tamura and another one the piled up bodies of japanese soldiers in front of the church and another important one is and when the japanese soldiers are trying to cross a street and the americans are already waiting there for them and shooting all of the japanese soldiers which have worse equipment and are fed worse and have no health equipment or anything alike. in my personal conclusion i have to say that it is worth seeing this film in order to finally see a movie from the other side than usual. it also has no nationalistic propaganda which could have been easily built in. once you have watched the movie fully and you will be able to see the horrors of the second world war to its total extent. 
fires on the plain directed by kon ichikawa and written by shohei ooka and natto wada is a world war two movie which is finally not showing the allies fighting the axis powers and but the japanese fighting and struggling for their lives on the philippines. the main characters name is tamura  and played by eiji funakoshi and and he is a soldier leaving his regiment because of him being sick. all he has on him is a hand grenade and his gun and some potatoes. like this and he is trying to make his way to the hospital in order to get a doctor and a cure for his disease. but since the hospital turned him away and gets destroyed and he begins a long walk. throughout the whole movie and tamura remains a bit cowardish and but very civil and when the other soldiers become more like animals by using their basic instincts for survival tamura is still remaining human and would not degrade. a scene which has influenced me a lot to think positively and different about this war movie is and when tamura comes into a phillipino village which is completely deserted. there and he fights a dog and finds a lot of corpses of japanese soldiers stacked up in front of a church. this makes tamura think and even more scared than he already is. that shows that the soldier is not a brave killing machine and but a servant to higher beings and human most importantly. after he turns away from the corpses and two phillipinos (a couple or brother and sister represent very close relationship) return to the village in order to get their stash of salt back. the main character of the movie wants to be friendly at first and although he walked up to them with his gun and but shoots the woman once she starts screaming. her brother or boyfriend or husband then runs away in fear and after a moment tamura follows him and shoots wildly at the fleeing filipino. he does not hit him. after tamura picks up the bag of salt  and something very precious  and he drops his gun into a river. this gesture is very important in order to understand kon ichikawa or shohei ooka profiling of tamura and the war. comparing this movie to other world war 2 movies and it is not typical at all. of course all movies have suffering heroes and but their heroes are more heroic than tamura. he expresses everything that is human represent he is getting manipulated  and he is weak  and he gets scared  and he has hope. this is typical for japanese world war two movies and for japanese society. since world war two is not a discussed theme in japanese society and japanese are likely to put japanese in the second world war in the role of the victim. this victimisation is also very visual in this movie. one of the examples is tamura and another one the piled up bodies of japanese soldiers in front of the church and another important one is and when the japanese soldiers are trying to cross a street and the americans are already waiting there for them and shooting all of the japanese soldiers which have worse equipment and are fed worse and have no health equipment or anything alike. in my personal conclusion i have to say that it is worth seeing this film in order to finally see a movie from the other side than usual. it also has no nationalistic propaganda which could have been easily built in. once you have watched the movie fully and you will be able to see the horrors of the second world war to its total extent. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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