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You can watch Fires on the Plain (1959) for free on Kanopy.

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Can a man retain his soul when hunger and sickness strip away every shred of civilization? This haunting portrait follows a dying soldier's lonely trek through a war-torn wasteland where the line between survival and depravity vanishes.