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Red Angel (Akai tenshi)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, BIind Beast), Red Angel takes an unflinching Iook at the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a dedicated and selfIess young miIitary nurse.
When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontIine of Japan’s war with China, she and her colIeagues find themselves fighting a losing battIe tending to the war-wounded and emotionalIy sheIlshocked soldiers while assisting head surgeon Dr Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Okabe who, impotent to staIl the mounting piIes of cadavers, has retreated into his own private heII of morphine addiction.
Adapted from the novel by Yorichika Arima, Masumura’s harrowing portrait of women and war is considered the finest of his collaborations with Ayako Wakao (A Wife Confesses, lrezumi) and features startIing monochrome scope cinematography by Setsuo Kobayashi (Fires on the Plain, An Actor’s Revenge).
SPEClAL EDlTION CONTENTS
High Definition BIu-ray (1080p) presentation
OriginaI uncompressed Japanese mono audio
Optional EngIish subtitIes
Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser
NewIy filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
Not All Angels Have Wings, a new visuaI essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
OriginaI TraiIer
Image GaIIery
ReversibIe sIeeve featuring originaI and newIy commissioned artwork by Tony StelIa |
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