The Prisoner of SakuraMovie
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".
About The Prisoner of Sakura
The Prisoner of Sakura is a 2019 drama movie directed by Masaki Inoue.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 51m, production credits from Japan, Russia, an original language code of JA.
The credited cast includes Junko Abe, Rodion Galyuchenko, Issey Ogata, Andrey Dementyev. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
