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".
- Year: 2019
- Country: Japan, Russia
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: AMUSE, BCM Roadshow Productions, Channel One, Heisei Project, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
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- Director: Masaki Inoue
- Cast: Abe Junko, Rodion Galyuchenko, Issey Ogata, Andrey Dementyev, Takumi Saitoh, Ivan Gromov