Fires on the Plain In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte. Details Casts Title Fires on the Plain Release Date 1959-11-03 Runtime 01 Hours 45 Minutes Genres Drama War Production Companies Daiei Film Production Countries Japan Eiji Funakoshi Tamura Osamu Takizawa Yasuda Mickey Curtis Nagamatsu Mantarō Ushio Sergeant Kyū Sazanka Army surgeon Yoshihiro Hamaguchi Officer Hikaru Hoshi Soldier Masaya Tsukida Soldier Kô Sugita Soldier Tatsuya Ishiguro Yoshio Inaba Jun Hamamura Asao Sano Soldier Shin Date Kōichi Itō Kisao Tobita Osamu Ōkawa Manabu Morita Shō Natsuki Kyōsuke Shiho Shizuo Chūjō Tōru Konoki Tetsurō Takeuchi Keiichi Hosokawa Yūzō Hayakawa