The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)

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".

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Summary Details
Earliest Release DateDecember 10, 2020 (Russia/CIS)
Running Time1 hr 51 min
GenresDrama History Romance War
FilmmakersRole
Masaki Inoue Director
Masaki Inoue Writer
Konstantin Samoylenko Writer
Hitoshi Endô Producer
Irina Inoue Producer
Keisuke Shimizu Producer
Hiroyuki Onogawa Composer
Ivan Sintsov Composer
Alim Zairov Composer
Tomoaki Iwakura Cinematographer
Masaki Inoue Editor
CastRole
Junko Abe
Yui Takeda/Sakurako Takamiya
Andrei Dementiev
Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky
Aleksandr Domogarov
Captain Vasily Boysman
Hana Ebise
Naka Takeda