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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Fires on the Plain, this is an unflinching Japanese antiwar reckoning, following one man's increasingly impossible efforts to retain moral agency inside a dehumanizing wartime system.
02
Why this pick
Another austere postwar Japanese film, it pairs ravaged landscapes and defeated soldiers with a deeply humane, spiritually searching view of war's aftermath.
03
Why this pick
Its fractured investigation into a soldier's death sustains the same bleak moral outrage, exposing starvation, military authority, and the unreliability of official wartime narratives.
04
Why this pick
Though not a war story, its near-wordless observation of bodily exhaustion and survival has the same stark, elemental visual severity and compassion for people pushed beyond endurance.
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Why this pick
A harsh, wintry wartime ordeal rendered with spiritual gravity, following exhausted figures whose physical collapse intensifies questions of conscience and human dignity.
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01 / THE STORY
In February 1945, the demoralized Imperial Japanese Army on Leyte is in desperate straits, cut off from support and supplies by the Allies, who are in the process of Battle of Leyte. Private Tamura has tuberculosis and is seen as a useless burden to his company, even though it has been reduced to little more than a platoon in strength. He is ordered to commit suicide if he is unable to get admitted to a field hospital. A sympathetic soldier gives him several yams from the unit's meager supplies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tamura
Nagamatsu
