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Red Angel

7.6 95 mins War   Drama   Romance   1966
Daiei Film  
Director(s): Yasuzō Masumura

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.

Casts of Red Angel

Ayako Wakao

as Nurse Sakura Nishi

Shinsuke Ashida

as Dr. Okabe

Yūsuke Kawazu

as Pvt. Orihara

Ranko Akagi

as Head Nurse Iwashima

Jōtarō Senba

as Private Sakamoto

Daihachi Kita

as Pvt. Nogami

Jun Osanai

as Special Duty Sergeant Major

Daigo Inoue

as Advance Guard Company's Fifth Chief

Ayako Ikegami

as Nurse Tsurusaki

Takashi Nakamura

as Head of infantry

Kisao Tobita

as Patient

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