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The Red Angel

Original title: Akai tenshi
  • 19661966
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
1.5K
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Akai tenshi (1966)
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
1.5K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Yasuzô Masumura
  • Writers
    • Yoriyoshi Arima(novel)
    • Ryôzô Kasahara
  • Stars
    • Ayako Wakao
    • Shinsuke Ashida
    • Yûsuke Kawazu
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  • Director
    • Yasuzô Masumura
  • Writers
    • Yoriyoshi Arima(novel)
    • Ryôzô Kasahara
  • Stars
    • Ayako Wakao
    • Shinsuke Ashida
    • Yûsuke Kawazu
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    • 15User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
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    Ayako Wakao
    Ayako Wakao
    • Nurse Sakura Nishias Nurse Sakura Nishi
    Shinsuke Ashida
    Shinsuke Ashida
    • Dr. Okabeas Dr. Okabe
    Yûsuke Kawazu
    Yûsuke Kawazu
    • Pvt. Oriharaas Pvt. Orihara
    Ranko Akagi
    • Head Nurse Iwashimaas Head Nurse Iwashima
    Jôtarô Senba
    Jôtarô Senba
    • Private Sakamotoas Private Sakamoto
    Daihachi Kita
    • Private Nogamias Private Nogami
    Jun Osanai
    • Special Duty Sergeant Majoras Special Duty Sergeant Major
    Daigo Inoue
    • Advance Guard Company's Fifth Chiefas Advance Guard Company's Fifth Chief
    Takashi Nakamura
    • Head of infantryas Head of infantry
    Ken'ichi Tani
    • Wounded soldieras Wounded soldier
    Kisao Tobita
    • Patientas Patient
    Naomasa Kawashima
    • Medicas Medic
    Ayako Ikegami
    • Nurse Tsurusakias Nurse Tsurusaki
    Kyôsuke Shiho
    • Chinese Boyas Chinese Boy
    Shin Minatsu
    • Soldieras Soldier
    Ken Nakahara
    • Wounded soldieras Wounded soldier
    Shinji Sayama
    • Sick Soldieras Sick Soldier
    Kenji Ohba
    Kenji Ohba
    • Director
      • Yasuzô Masumura
    • Writers
      • Yoriyoshi Arima(novel)
      • Ryôzô Kasahara
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    Storyline

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    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. —Will Gilbert
    • timeframe 1930s
    • morphine
    • sino japanese war
    • nurse
    • soldier
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      • Drama
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      • War
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      • Not Rated
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      The film contains some gruesome sequences of surgery without anaesthetic and the removal of limbs with saws. Not for the squeamish.

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    8/10
    Important and enthralling film
    Extremely tough little b/w gem from director, Masumura. It's 1939 and the Japanese are fighting in China, to not very much effect. We follow the efforts of those in field hospitals desperately trying to pick up the pieces when each load of war injured is raced back from the front line. Limbs are sawn off and bullets removed, all without aesthetic but plenty of blood and screams. Amid it all our heroine struggles to recover from her early rape by patients and the requests of the desperate and dying. This movie is so well put together that it is only afterwards you wonder just how that scene where she allows the handless man to feel her with his feet or make her senior a 'man again', without it seeming incongruous within this tale of death and destruction. With the blatant misogynism, nudity, explicit surgery, bondage, drug taking and even cross dressing, not to mention the inherent criticism of the Japanese stance, it is a wonder this film got made, distributed and survived. Important and enthralling film.
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    • christopher-underwood
    • Oct 27, 2007

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 1, 1971 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Red Angel
    • Production company
      • Daiei Studios
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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