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".
Release Date
March 22, 2019Runtime
111 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Masaki InoueWritten by
Konstantin SamoylenkoScreenplay by
Masaki Inoue, Shunsuke KatoriLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Crew13 crew members