Fires on the Plain (Nobi)

Digital cinematography + Tsukamoto's trademark gore + war is hell on earth > hyperreal, hyperbolized horrors of history with the skin of armistice stretched over it Barring The Thin Red Line it is difficult to pinpoint another film about war that is as colorful and…

reibureibu

Happy Japanuary 2023, and happy birthday to the great Shinya Tsukamoto. To reach or exceed the greatness of Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain (1959) was always going to be a tall order. Ichikawa's adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Shōhei Ōoka, is a…

Ben

Reviewers out there, it's not a remake of Ichikawa's movie, but a reinterpretation of the novel, understood?

matteoB

Tsukamoto has time & time again proven himself one of our greatest multihyphenate actor-directors, and this is his minimalist tour-de-force, stripping his style down to basics, being on camera at basically all times and still delivering a facemelter. Every new score I hear…

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

#Japanuary 2024 Day 22: A war film I dont care its a remake but Shinya Tsukamoto nailed his role as actor plus director both way.

Adrian Oli

Fires on the Plain is a gut-churning effort from Shinya Tsukamoto that once again proves his limitless energy as a writer, director and lead actor. It's one thing that Tsukamoto performs all these roles, but it's another thing altogether that he performs each role so well.…

Dave Jackson

Summer of Cinema WWII walking simulator  True war told through digitally abstracted eyesTrials and tribulations of voiceless specters lost to time Their existence ultimately rendered meaninglessWar equals waste and nothing else 

Max Ahoy

If you remove the veneer of the heroism that's associated with war, the patriotism aspect, there’s a truth to the true horror of the conflict that if you were to depict it in its unflinching actuality, it might be something close to Shinya Tsukamoto's FIRES ON THE PLAIN…

Jon Peters

I won't kill you! I won't! Prepare for me to possibly sound really pretentious and exaggerated, but Shinya Tsukamoto understands the horrors that the soul can face. I am beginning to think that's what makes him one of the best filmmakers ever, and with him, I really do…

Noah Cassidy