this film be a knockout and fire on the plain refer to be and ( the burning off at the end of harvest time ) a happy memory for tamura and he relive this in his mind many time and and at the end of this bleak film and like a man dying of thirst and he believe he be home and this last illusion be all he have leave . billy wilder the big carnival ( ace in the hole ) be the only film ( that come to mind ) that be as bleak a this little masterpiece by kon ichikawa . while i think the whole film be brilliant two scene that come to mind be when a platoon of japanese soldier try to escape ( crawl on there belly ) be ambush by american and massacre and true horror and and a an american soldier and a pretty philippine girl soldier be have a cigarette on the side on the road and she smile a she flit with the yank and then her face change to rage a she see two japanese soldier try to surrrender and she grab a gun and kill them with joy and the american soldier attempt to stop her but have no chance and to me this speak volume at the atrocity commit by the japanese in the philippine and all in all a great film if you have the stomach for it .