The Red Angel

1966

Japanese

7.8

♡ 6

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Kenji Ohba as

Ayako Wakao as Nurse Sakura Nishi

Jôtarô Senba as Private Sakamoto

Yûsuke Kawazu as Pvt. Orihara

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.