the main achievement of this film be that though racially unipolar and the film still manage to carve out a tableau of war portrayal that leave a lasting identification with whoever may view it and and whoever be present at this time . though good film may have the ability of universalize their subject and which be often a hard thing to do while great film have the ability of universalize their unipolar subject and which be what this film do . instead of carve a context of unity and the film depict the japanese in the sick finality of the phillipines war front in february and 1945 and make sign for pacifism or war and but rather make sign of the feeling and death and destruction and victory and sickness of war with the bloody hand of the defeat . far different and and superior and to film such a apocalypse now and full metal jacket and both which need a satirical methodology of trivialize and depersonalize the american troupe and and use all race a one struggle and which be fine and yet not as grand a a film that use one race and view and which would look fascist if create in america and to convey the horror of war and show what it be really like . the only way the main character make it through this movie to the end and be by be sick and thence inedible while hence through this character and through his sickness and his save face and we see the end of wwii in the phillipines in february of 1945 and and the way in which the american and japanese and phillipinians come together in bloody act of warfare where you live to die . the film be patently influence by a neorealist way of filmic portrayal and which be original and beneficial to a viewer and whether then or now and for the neorealist techniques it employ conveys all the horror of war in pictorial form and whether a showcase for pacifism or amilitaristic responsibility . like germania anno zero and by roberto rossellini and a story emerge from the environment and the condition associate with it . the film opening and with the two way discussion between the two japanese soldier and prefigures and reecho the event . through this opening we feel that the struggle be human against human and and human with human while it show that they rely on each other to face the enemy in the past battle and but now and in this opening and or pivot of the experience of the japanese in the phillipines and new information be relay to the main character tamura and give a presentiment of a cannibal reliance on one another if they wish to survive . the jungle be gritty and wet and thick and and the sky be not infrequently cloudy and pour . we wade with the straggler though puddle and marsh and as sick a the land around them . nameless cadaver be strewn everywhere . every now and then one can not tell if they be body and rock or corn . apparently there be no difference here and all be dead and sick . all be die . all they have lest to fee upon be rare monkey and dead body of fall comrade and or or nameless enemy . often tamura meet a fall other near death . though crush in spirit and and crush his and some offer up their body for him to eat and but he refuse while he still and like hiroshi kawaguchi a nishi in giant and toy and will not droop into the death of dignity and japanese moral while for this be all he really have to hold up for his survival and a dignity of self . hence and when nagamatsu be dissect a soldier for consumption and he shoot him because of it . tamura may be use to the killing and but to the sickness of kill and pillage he can not decipher . he be neither a good man or a bad man . he wish to survive and but will not go the extra mile beyond simple straight war kill . his self belong dead on the battlefield and he isn not happy here to wade and wipe the weak for his survival . the sickness he carry he see everywhere and in everyone while and sadly he lack the ethical rationale of think either think entirely about others and since he can not give up his body for them since of his contagious malady and or think entirely about himself and since he see the sickness in everyone and though still kill them even if they do no harm . see in his attack on the two philippian in the hut . he can not see anyone . no one can see anyone . the only see an aversion from malady and an adversion to health and the heart of survival instinct . often and an arm appear point to the left of the screen and towards what must be hope and for there and in that far thule lie their freedom . yet it be block by american soldier and leave the japanese straggler to slowly die in this disconsolate dirt . even a church tower appear and reflect the light off an unseen sun . but on close inspection crow flutter wildly about it while religion too be an air of poison . nobi and the japanese title of the film and give more evidence to the theme and or feeling of the film represent the servitude to fate and the heaviness of existence under leader and life control by others . it proper anglophone translation have a subject of heavy debate among historian and a non korean translate it a slave and slavery and while many korean argue that nobi be not a slave system and but a servant class system that do not meet the criterion for slavery . a way to typically to escape wrench poverty . this improve upon the war theme and and symbolism of soldiery . isn not it important at the time period to ask ourselves what the purpose be of what will become our won history . should we be comfortable of let it unroll without conscious effort for change . be it not who we be fight and that age old history question and but rather why be we fight . fire on the plain be with eiji funakoshi and osamu takizawa and and mickey curtis while base on a novel by shohei ooka . in japanese with subtitle .