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Red Angel
1966
Set against the Sino-Japanese war of 1939, a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unti, she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each other, as all around, disease,.. Read more
| Starring | Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu |
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| Director | Yasuzo Masumura |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
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Red Angel
Set against the Sino-Japanese war of 1939, a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unti, she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each other, as all around, disease, brutality and carnage threaten to sweep their humanity away...
| Starring | Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu |
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| Director | Yasuzo Masumura |
| Studio | YUME PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1966 To Rent: DVD: 24 Jul 2006 |
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Imagine if a cutting edge Asian film-maker such as Miike Takashi or Park Chan-Wook had been transported back to the 1960's and genetically spliced with Douglas Sirk. Sounds incredible, but that's probably the only way your brain will accept such stunning movies.
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- 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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The strength-in-depth of Japanese cinema is demonstrated here. Red Angel is a black and white film from 1966 directed by Masumura Yasuzo, something of a ... read more »
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- Stephen Simpson
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- 16 Jul 2006 at 20:22
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in war and love
Young nurse in military hospital first encounters horrors of war seeing patients losing their limbs without anesthetic and being raped by patients. She falls in... read more »
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war with sex on the side
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A good japanese mash type film and i enjoyed it
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- a customer
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- 19 May 2008 at 18:46
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Set against the Sino-Japanese war of 1939, a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unti, she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each ...
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