The Prisoner of Sakura
2019 · 111 min · Drama
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
- Writers
- Masaki Inoue, Shunsuke Katori, Konstantin Samoylenko
- Released
- March 22, 2019
- Language
- Japanese
Cast
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