The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)

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Released:
2019-03-22

Overview:
With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".

Director:
Masaki Inoue

Runtime:
1h 51min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • Junko Abe
    as
    Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya
  • Rodion Galyuchenko
    as
    Alexander Sorokin
  • Issey Ogata
    as
    Commandant Kono
  • Andrey Dementyev
    as
    Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky
  • Takumi Saitoh
    as
    Shiro Kurata