Directed by:
Yasuzo MasumuraScreenplay:
笠原良三Cinematography:
Setsuo KobayashiComposer:
Sei IkenoPlots(1)
One of Japan’s most notorious and internationally criminally under-exposed films. Shocking, beautiful and moving in equal measure, this is one of Masumura’s very finest achievements. Set against the Sino-Japanese war in 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 unit, 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. (Independent Cinema Office)
(more)Cast
![Ayako Wakao](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279566_d48e41.jpg)
Ayako Wakao
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
A Cheerful Girl (1957)
Shinsuke Ashida
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Red Angel (1966)
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
![Yûsuke Kawazu](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/439/164439339_f1abae.jpg)
Yûsuke Kawazu
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Red Angel (1966)
![篠田三郎](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/267/161267187_a6cbe0.jpg)
篠田三郎
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills (2008)
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
Kisao Tobita
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
The Wife's Confession (1961)
Ken'ichi Tani
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
The Wife's Confession (1961)
The Black Test Car (1962)
Kei'ichi Noda
Japan
Best movies:
Red Angel (1966)
Angel's Egg (1985)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)