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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".

Top Cast

  • Junko Abe

    Junko Abe

    Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

  • Rodion Galyuchenko

    Rodion Galyuchenko

    Alexander Sorokin

  • Issey Ogata

    Issey Ogata

    Commandant Kono

  • Andrey Dementyev

    Andrey Dementyev

    Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

  • Takumi Saitoh

    Takumi Saitoh

    Shiro Kurata

  • Ivan Gromov

    Ivan Gromov

    Alexey Krushinsky

  • Yōko Yamamoto

    Yōko Yamamoto

    Grandmother Kikue

Overview

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".

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