The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 118 1960s war movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
69 audience votes
Key crew
- Yasuzō MasumuraDirector
- Ryōzō KasaharaScreenplay
- Sei IkenoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ayako WakaoNurse Sakura Nishi
- Shinsuke AshidaDr. Okabe
- Yūsuke KawazuPvt. Orihara
- Ranko AkagiHead Nurse Iwashima
- Jōtarō SenbaPrivate Sakamoto
- Daihachi KitaPvt. Nogami
- Jun OsanaiSpecial Duty Sergeant Major
- Daigo InoueAdvance Guard Company's Fifth Chief
- Ayako IkegamiNurse Tsurusaki
- Takashi NakamuraHead of infantry
- Kenichi TaniCast
- Kisao TobitaPatient
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The Best Movies of 1966
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