The Red Angel
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.
Benediction
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
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Yasuzô Masumura
Director
Kenji Ohba
as
Ayako Wakao
as
Nurse Sakura Nishi
Jôtarô Senba
as
Private Sakamoto
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Pvt. Orihara
Harry Lawtrey
as
Bobby Andrews
Julian Sands
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Chief Medical Officer
Ben Daniels
as
Dr. Rivers
Lia Williams
as
Edith Sitwell
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