Fires on the Plain

At the end of World War II, Private Tamura, a Japanese soldier suffering from tuberculosis, is cast out by his squad and left to fend for himself in the Filipino jungle. Facing starvation and illness, he journeys through a desolate landscape populated by desperate comrades. As his sanity frays, Tamura is forced to confront the ultimate taboo of cannibalism to survive the brutal realities of war.