War ·Drama ·Romance · Japan · 1966 · 1h 35m

Red Angel

赤い天使

Director

Cast

Ayako Wakao as Nurse Sakura Nishi Shinsuke Ashida as Dr. Okabe Yūsuke Kawazu as Pvt. Orihara Ranko Akagi as Head Nurse Iwashima Jōtarō Senba as Private Sakamoto Daihachi Kita as Pvt. Nogami

Crew

Setsuo Kobayashi — Director of Photography Tatsuji Nakashizu — Editor Sei Ikeno — Original Music Composer Ryōzō Kasahara — Screenplay Yorichika Arima — Novel Ikuo Kubodera — Producer

Synopsis

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

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