Director – Yasuzo Masumura – 1966 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 95m An army nurse is sent to China – as a slogan in one of the film’s trailers puts it, “on the battlefield where life and death is decided.” ***** Full Blu-ray review published at All The Anime. In 1939, for her first […]
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Red Angel
(Akai Tenshi,
赤い天使)
- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date July 23 2022
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(Akai Tenshi,
赤い天使) - Sticky post
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