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