The Prisoner of Sakura(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".

Genre: Drama

Director: Masaki Inoue

Actors: Junko Abe, Andrei Dementiev, Aleksandr Domogarov, Hana Ebise, Rodion Galyuchenko, Ivan Gromov, Nana Inoue, Rii Ishihara, Setsuko Kaida, Naomasa Musaka

Release date: 2019-03-22

Country of origin: Japan, Russian Federation

Length: 1h 51m

Ratings:

• 6.1/10