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Red Angel is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yasuzō Masumura with Ayako Wakao

Red Angel (1966)

Akai tenshi

Red Angel
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Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    War,    Historical,    Romance
Rating77% 3.889973.889973.889973.889973.88997

Red Angel (Japanese title: 赤い天使, "Akai Tenshi") is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yorichika Arima (ja).

Synopsis

Sakura Nishi is a Japanese nurse in China during the Sino-Japanese war. Initially she works in a ward of chronically ill men. She is raped by a patient, Sakamoto. She reports the rape and Sakamoto is sent to the front lines. Nishi is sent to a field hospital. The hospital is overwhelmed and has too few doctors and medicine to treat all the patients. Nishi works with Doctor Okabe. Sakamoto comes in, shot in the belly and dying. Okabe refuses to treat him, but Nishi pleads with him. Okabe tries to save Sakamoto on condition that Nishi will come to his room that night. Sakamoto dies, but Nishi goes to Okabe's room. However, Okabe just wants to talk to Nishi and drink his French wine with her. He asks her to inject him with morphine then sleeps. Nishi takes pity on a man who has lost his arms, and forms a sexual relationship with him. The man then commits suicide.

Actors

Ayako Wakao

(Nurse Sakura Nishi)
Shinsuke Ashida

(Dr. Okabe)
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