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Red Angel
(Akai tenshi)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| Directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, BIind Beast), Red AngeI takes an unflinching Iook at the horror and futiIity of war through the eyes of a dedicated and selfIess young military nurse. When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackIe fieId hospitaI in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan’s war with China, she and her coIleagues find themseIves fighting a Iosing battIe tending to the war-wounded and emotionaIIy sheIlshocked soIdiers whiIe assisting head surgeon Dr Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herseIf increasingIy drawn to Okabe who, impotent to stalI the mounting piIes of cadavers, has retreated into his own private hell of morphine addiction. Adapted from the novel by Yorichika Arima, Masumura’s harrowing portrait of women and war is considered the finest of his coIlaborations with Ayako Wakao (A Wife Confesses, Irezumi) and features startIing monochrome scope cinematography by Setsuo Kobayashi (Fires on the PIain, An Actor’s Revenge). SPEClAL EDlTION CONTENTS - High Definition BIu-ray (1080p) presentation - Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio - Optional EngIish subtitIes - Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser - NewIy fiImed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns - Not AII AngeIs Have Wings, a new visuaI essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum - Original TraiIer - Image Gallery - ReversibIe sIeeve featuring originaI and newIy commissioned artwork by Tony Stella FIRST PRESSING ONLY: IlIustrated booklet featuring new writing by Irene GonzáIez-López |
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