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Red Angel

Red Angel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 1, 1966

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

War, Drama, Romance

User Score

76%

Original Title

赤い天使

Production Companies

Daiei Film

Director

Yasuzō Masumura

Description

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