The Red Angel

media release: Japan | 1966 | DCP | 95 min. | Japanese with English subtitles

Director: Yasuzo Masumura

Cast: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu

This potent and chilling anti-war love story is perhaps the greatest film from the brilliant and neglected filmmaker Masumura (Blind Beast, Giants and Toys). In 1939, a beautiful Japanese nurse copes with warfront duty in China by sleeping with an amputee patient and falling in love with a morphine-addicted doctor. The gorgeous black and white widescreen cinematography captures images both horrific and beautiful. Red Angel is a genuine masterpiece!

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