Red Angel

Out on:Blu-Ray 17th Jan. 2022

Directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast), Red Angel takes an unflinching look at the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a dedicated and selfless young military nurse.

When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan’s war with China, she and her colleagues find themselves fighting a losing battle tending to the war-wounded and emotionally shellshocked 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 stall the mounting piles 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 collaborations with Ayako Wakao (A Wife Confesses, Irezumi) and features startling monochrome scope cinematography by Setsuo Kobayashi (Fires on the Plain, An Actor’s Revenge).

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema scholar David Desser
• Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
• Not All Angels Have Wings, a new visual essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Original Trailer
• Image Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Irene González-López

Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Cast: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuka Kawazu

RRP: £24.99
Region: B
Rating: 15
Genre: Drama / War
Duration: 95 mins
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audio: Mono 1.0
Black & White
Discs: 1
BD Cat No: FCD2223
BD Barcode: 5027035023922

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RELEASE INFORMATION

Distributor
Arrow Video
Release date
17th January, 2022

KEY TALENT INFORMATION

Director
Yasuzo Masumura

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