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Fires on the Plain

by Jim Hoberman

December 1, 2010

Dir. Kon Ichikawa (1959).
This first-rate anti-war film, and the darkest comedy that Ichikawa ever made, concerns cannibalism on the battlefield—it’s tasteful but devastating.

Fri., Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., 2010

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