Arrow Video Looks To Jan. 18 For The Blu-ray Debut Of Director Yasuzo Masumura's Red Angel

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Jan. 18 as the street date for the Blu-ray debut of director Yasuzo Masumura’s 1966 (1971 domestic arthouse release) horrors-of-war classic, Red Angel.

It is 1939 and the Sino-Japanese War has been raging for two long years.   At the front is Japanese nurse Sakura Nishi (Ayako Wakao — Seisaku's Wife, A Wife Confesses), who takes pity on many of her dying and maimed patients with “kindness.”  

It is a hellish place and the surgeon in charge, Dr. Okabe (Shinsuke Ashida — Woman of the Lake, A Taxing Woman, The Battle of Manchuria) has taken to deadening the daily grind of dealing with the dead and dying by using morphine.   Their relationship — doctor and nurse — will play out as a doomed love affair, juxtaposed to a war that seems to have no end.

Red Angel is presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

Bonus features include a newly minted commentary with film scholar David Desser, an introduction by film critic Tony Rayns and the featurette titled “Not All Angels have Wings.”