
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 Billed Cast

Junko Abe
Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

Rodion Galyuchenko
Alexander Sorokin

Issey Ogata
Commandant Kono

Andrey Dementyev
Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

Takumi Saitoh
Shiro Kurata
Featured Crew
Irina Inoue
Producer
Atsuko Shiraishi
Costume Design
Yumiko Masuda
Executive Producer
Hitoshi Endo
Producer
Shunsuke Katori
Screenplay
Kazuhiko Tanaka
Original Story
Masaki Inoue
Screenplay
Jumpei Aoyoma
Original Story
Hiroyuki Onogawa
Original Music Composer
Tomoaki Iwakura
Director of Photography
Ryoji Matsumoto
Art Direction
Masaki Inoue
Director