The Prisoner of Sakura

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".

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

Hitoshi Endo

Producer

Irina Inoue

Producer

Yumiko Masuda

Executive Producer

Atsuko Shiraishi

Costume Design

Masaki Inoue

Director

Masaki Inoue

Screenplay

Kazuhiko Tanaka

Original Story

Jumpei Aoyoma

Original Story

Shunsuke Katori

Screenplay

Konstantin Samoylenko

Writer