Tag: firesontheplain

FIRES ON THE PLAIN: Watch The Trailer For Tsukamoto's War Picture

Tetsuo The Iron Man director Tsukamoto Shinya takes a turn into some very different material with Fires On The Plain, his adaptation of Ooka Shohei's novel chronicling the last, desperate days of Japanese soldiers stationed in the Philippines in World...

Tokyo FILMeX 2014 - Tsukamoto Shinya Talks FIRES ON THE PLAIN

Director Tsukamoto Shinya garnered a cult following in 1989 following the release of his cyberpunk classic, Tetsuo the Iron Man. The filmmaker has subsequently released two sequels to his breakthrough hit while expressing considerable talent in a range of...

Busan 2014 Review: FIRES ON THE PLAIN Drags Us Into The Abyss

Though based on Ooha Shohei's book of the same name rather than Ichikawa Kon's languid and harrowing 1959 film, Tsukamoto Shinya's Fires on the Plain was always going to be an entirely different beast. Low-budget and with a frenetic and...