The Red Angel
Akai tenshi
1966, Film, 95 min, Drama, Romance, War, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Cast
- Ayako Wakao as Nurse Sakura Nishi
- Shinsuke Ashida as Dr. Okabe
- Yûsuke Kawazu as Pvt. Orihara
- Ranko Akagi as Head Nurse Iwashima
- Jôtarô Senba as Private Sakamoto
- Daihachi Kita as Private Nogami
- Jun Osanai as Special Duty Sergeant Major
- Daigo Inoue as Advance Guard Company's Fifth Chief
- Takashi Nakamura as Head of infantry
- Ken'ichi Tani as Wounded soldier
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