The Prisoner of Sakura

The Prisoner of Sakura

111 mins | Drama | March 22, 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".

The Prisoner of Sakura

111 mins | Drama | March 22, 2019

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".
Producers First Channel, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, BCM Roadshow Productions, Amuse, Heisei Project
Original title ソローキンの見た桜
Directors Masaki Inoue
Writers Shunsuke Katori, Jumpei Aoyoma, Konstantin Samoylenko, Masaki Inoue, Kazuhiko Tanaka

Cast

Junko Abe

as Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

Rodion Galyuchenko

as Alexander Sorokin

Issey Ogata

as Commandant Kono

Andrey Dementyev

as Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

Takumi Saitoh

as Shiro Kurata

Ivan Gromov

as Alexey Krushinsky

Yōko Yamamoto

as Grandmother Kikue