Fires on the Plain
野火 (original)
In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.
Starring Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantarō Ushio, Kyū Sazanka, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hikaru Hoshi, Masaya Tsukida, Kô Sugita, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Watch "Fires on the Plain" on Criterion Channel released in 1959. It's a drama and war movie, and has a rating of 8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.