The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)

ソローキンの見た桜 | Russia| Japan

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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Writers

Masaki Inoue
Shunsuke Katori

Stars

Jun Abe
Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

Rodion Galyuchenko
Alexander Sorokin

Ogata Issey
Commandant Kono

Andrei Dementiev
Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

Takumi Saito
Shiro Kurata

Ivan Gromov
Alexey Krushinsky

Yōko Yamamoto
Grandmother Kikue

Others...

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Production

Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Channel One, Amuse, BCM Roadshow Productions, Heisei Project

Actor

Jun Abe, Rodion Galyuchenko, Ogata Issey, Andrei Dementiev, Takumi Saito, Ivan Gromov, Yōko Yamamoto

Creators

Alim Zairov (Original Music Composer), Hiroyuki Onogawa (Original Music Composer), Tomoaki Iwakura (Director of Photography), Kazuhiko Tanaka (Original Story), Masaki Inoue (Screenplay), Konstantin Samoylenko (Writer), Jumpei Aoyoma (Original Story), Shunsuke Katori (Screenplay), Ryoji Matsumoto (Art Direction)

Alternative titles

Sorokin no Mita Sakura (JP)
The Sakura That Sorokin Saw (US)

Release dates

24.04.2019 (RU)
18.06.2020 (RU)
22.03.2019 (JP)

The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)

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