Red Angel (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3

A scathing look at the dehumanizing effects of war, the 1966 film Red Angel is widely considered to be one of the crowning achievements of director Masumura Yasuzo's long and prolific career, which included classic titles like Blind Beast and All Mixed Up. In charting the spiritual and sexual decline of a young, inexperienced field nurse thrust into the hell of World War II, Masumura crafts an emotionally complex drama with characters who earn sympathy even as their actions repel. Typical of the director's works, Red Angel does not shy away from sometimes frank depictions of sex and violence, but a thoughtful screenplay from Kasahara Ryozo and a moving performance from Japanese screen legend Wakao Ayako prevent the film from falling into the realm of exploitation. Red Angel transcends its lurid subject matter to emerge as a powerful and poignant antiwar masterpiece.

On the front lines of the Sino-Japanese War, Nurse Nishi Sakura (Wakao Ayako) spends her days amputating limbs and her nights attempting to avoid sexual assault at the hands of her own patients. Surrounded by wounded soldiers with no will to live and a once-brilliant head surgeon (Ashida Shinsuke) who has become a morphine addict, Nishi desperately seeks any means possible to alleviate the suffering of those around her. Her growing love for the drug-addled doctor may hold the key to his redemption, but at the cost of Nishi's own sexual martyrdom. As the horrors of war close in around them, Nishi fights to reclaim Dr. Okabe's humanity without losing her own in the process.

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Product Title:	Red Angel (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) 赤色天使 (DVD) (香港版) 赤色天使 (DVD) (香港版) 赤い天使 (DVD) (香港版) Red Angel (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s):	Wakao Ayako (Actor) | Ashida Shinsuke (Actor) | Kawazu Yusuke (Actor) 若尾文子 (Actor) | Ashida Shinsuke (Actor) | 川津祐介 (Actor) 若尾文子 (Actor) | Ashida Shinsuke (Actor) | 川津佑介 (Actor) 若尾文子 (Actor) | 芦田伸介 (Actor) | 川津祐介 (Actor) Wakao Ayako (Actor) | Ashida Shinsuke (Actor) | Kawazu Yusuke (Actor)
Director:	Masumura Yasuzo 增村保造 增村保造 増村保造 Masumura Yasuzo
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Release Date:	2007-07-17
Language:	Japanese
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Country of Origin:	Japan
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio:	1.78 : 1
Widescreen Anamorphic:	Yes
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration:	95 (mins)
Publisher:	Intercontinental Video (HK)
Package Weight:	120 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004920697

Director: Masumura Yasuzo

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 impotenet from his morphine addiction.