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Akai Tenshi (1966)

Drama | 92 minutes
3,74 50 votes

Genre: Drama / War

Duration: 92 minuten

Alternative titles: Red Angel / 赤い天使

Country: Japan

Directed by: Yasuzô Masumura

Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida and Yûsuke Kawazu

IMDb score: 7,8 (2.190)

Releasedate: 1 October 1966

Akai Tenshi plot

During the Sino-Japanese War in 1939, the angelic army nurse Sakura Nishi is raped by her patients. She is sent to the frontline in China, where she has to help Doctor Okabe with amputations in field hospitals. Sakura falls in love with the morphine-addicted surgeon, and together the couple seek solace in each other when the brutality and carnage that surrounds them threatens to wipe out their humanity.

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Nurse Sakura Nishi

Pvt. Orihara

Head Nurse Iwashima

Private Sakamoto

Pvt. Nogami

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Advance Guard Company's Fifth Chief

Nurse Tsurusaki

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BBarbie

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Raw war drama about all kinds of compassion, personified in a beautiful nurse who - surrounded by amputated limbs - is not afraid to alleviate the misery of wounded soldiers in many ways and in the process falls in love herself. It is a bit too thick here and there, but it is effective as an indictment against wars. The solid acting of Ayako Wakao in the title role does the rest. Great movie.

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Ferdydurke

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Sister Cherry Blossom among the soldiers.

That sounds a bit dubious, but it is honestly the essence of the film in a nutshell: a passionate love story in a devastating war. Heinz G. Konsalik the Japanese way.

The depiction of the hectic and harsh conditions in a field hospital leaves nothing to the imagination, and the underlying message - war is a senseless horror, an attack on humanity - is, to be sure, reinforced through almost every dialogue. peppered.

The theatrical romance of the nurse and her doctor gradually becomes more and more grotesque, with the apotheosis being that last night, in which the amputating duo succeeds in making the business grow again. What love can do.

Sakura is every soldier's wet dream, and it follows that the word "no" is not part of her vocabulary. So when an armless patient asks her if he can paw her private parts with his feet: well, go ahead. 'Since my arms were amputated, I have developed a lot of feeling in my feet.'

Crazy movie.

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Fisico

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A gem that was under my skin from minute one and will probably lie dormant there for a few more days. Very confrontational anti-war film about the second Sino-Japanese War between 1937 and 1944. I have seen amputations in many films, just think of the Saw franchise, but rarely have I been more impressed than here. Presumably because of the context and reality of the event. I have already devoured a lot of literature about the horrors of WWI (Barbusse, Junger, Remarque, Barthas, Graves, ...) and I always saw the same horror on the sick beds as here.

Wounded soldiers are considered objects. Doctors are nothing more than glorified butchers. Out of necessity too. To prevent gangrene and tetanus and due to insufficient blood (transfusions) and (hygienic) material, major decisions must be made. Literally sometimes.

In addition, attention is also paid to the image of the country. What trauma do you inflict on a country by unleashing its mutilated soldiers on society? Rather, these soldiers end up in sanatoriums until the end of their days. Family is told that their partner or son died honorably on the battlefield.

The contact with the man without arms is confronting, whereby he is no longer able to meet his own sexual needs. The situation in the first line, which is cut off from the rest and where cholera has broken out, is dire. . And all through the eyes of a dutiful young nurse. Rock solid! This will one day be the full 5.0*!

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