Kon Ichikawa

Features

Fires on the Plain: I’ll Go On

By Mark Labowskie

More than any political or social reading, what Fires on the Plain is really about is life in extremis -- life on the border of death. [11 May 2007]

Reviews

The Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto) (1956)

By Michael Buening

The film's awareness lies behind much of the action, to give it a gravity and power that offers hope without denying the potentially hopeless psychological brutality of war. [17 April 2007]