It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions facing the men, some go insane and resort to murder and cannibalism. In the midst of this, Pvt. Tamura tries to survive without giving up his principles.... (Full plot summary below)
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It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions facing the men, some go insane and resort to murder and cannibalism. In the midst of this, Pvt. Tamura tries to survive without giving up his principles.
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| F5 (Wichita, KS)Jake EukerOne of film's great statements of pacificism; search it out. |
| Turner Classic Movies OnlineSean Axmaker... a grim and gruesome and at times macabre autopsy of its (selectively Japanese) victims. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrNo other film on the horrors of war has gone anywhere near as far as Kon Ichikawa's 1959 Japanese feature. |
| Detroit Free PressJohn MonaghanPacks a powerful antiwar message. As with Eastwood's Iwo Jima, it dispels the myth that every Japanese soldier had the suicidal desire to die for his country. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThis downbeat but fervent pic goes much further than the accepted war masterpieces in detailing humanity in crisis, and the spark left in one man. Production one of the most searing comments on war yet made. |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe performance of Eiji Funakoshi as the straggler cannot help but make you feel a terrible sense of the human waste and pathos represented in the ruin of this poor man. |
| User ReviewKumar RVery faithful adaptation of the book (which is still in print if you want to read it -- a hard read, but definitely satisfying). And on top of that, beautiful. It's really great that this is a husband and wife team. And Mickey Curtis was really great. Crazy. |
| User ReviewPeter HA bleak and depressing, and intriguingly stylized, look at war and survival. Riveting and bold, peppered occasionally with twisted moments of very black humor |
| User ReviewWilliam RA nightmarish descent into the very base instincts of the human psyche. Not really a war movie per se; much like Hell in the Pacific, this film seems to use WWII merely as a convenient backdrop to tell it's story, which is effective in the extreme. Don't watch this if you're trying to cheer yourself up. |
| User ReviewElliot ZOne of the greatest antiwar films ever made. |
