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.

• DirectorYasuzō Masumura
• Release1 October 1966
• Genre
  War / Drama
• Duration1h 35m
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  7.629
  58 reviews
• Productions

  Daiei Film