Basic Info
Release: March 22, 2019
Runtime: 111 min
Status: Released
The Prisoner of Sakura
2019
111 min
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".
Genres
Drama
Production Countries
- Japan
- Russia
Spoken Languages
- Japanese ja
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Cast
Junko Abe
Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya
Rodion Galyuchenko
Alexander Sorokin
Issey Ogata
Commandant Kono
Andrey Dementyev
Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky
Takumi Saitoh
Shiro Kurata
Ivan Gromov
Alexey Krushinsky
Yōko Yamamoto
Grandmother Kikue
Crew
Irina Inoue
Producer
Hitoshi Endo
Producer
Yumiko Masuda
Executive Producer
Shunsuke Katori
Screenplay
Masaki Inoue
Screenplay
Masaki Inoue
Director
Konstantin Samoylenko
Writer
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