RED ANGEL

Japan | 1966 | DCP | 95 min. | Japanese with English subtitles
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Cast: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu

This potent and chilling anti-war love story is perhaps the greatest film from the brilliant and neglected filmmaker Masumura (Blind Beast, Giants and Toys). In 1939, a beautiful Japanese nurse copes with warfront duty in China by sleeping with an amputee patient and falling in love with a morphine-addicted doctor. The gorgeous black and white widescreen cinematography captures images both horrific and beautiful. Red Angel is a genuine masterpiece!