Award-winning Japanese actor
and director Shinya Tsukamoto revisits World War II
and a platoon stranded on a Filipino island with no supplies
whose members resort to cannibalism in his film Fires on the
Plain, which screened Tuesday in competition at the 71st Venice
Film Festival.
The movie is based on Ooka Shohei's 1951 novel by the same
title, which explores the degradation and isolation of one man,
Private Tamura, as he loses first his hope and then his sanity
as he slowly starves in the jungle.
"I can sense the seventy-year-old horror and screams of
those who decayed in the jungle. I pick it up on a radar that's
directly connected to my spine, and I injected those sensations
into every frame," Tsukamoto, who has been dubbed Japan's David
Lynch, said in his director's statement.
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